Three small updates to the Keyman Desktop 8.0 keyboard options feature are proposed: testing for base layout, on screen keyboard-specific rules, and providing feedback to the end user.
Introduction Keyman 8.0 improved mnemonic keyboards by remapping the On Screen Keyboard to the underlying hardware layout. Previous versions of Keyman did not do this well. This has been a big improvement and makes mnemonic keyboards much more useful with European hardware layouts. However, apart from this one change, we Read more…
Keyman Developer 8.0 includes the facility to create a combined keyboard and Keyman Desktop installer. Here's a quick walkthrough on how to do this.
When using Windows Live Mail 11 with the European Latin keyboard, you may find extra apostrophes appearing when trying to type words such as café. This would appear as caf'é. Similarly, typing a Hungarian word such as ősi would appear as "ősi. This issue occurs because Windows Live Mail dynamically Read more…
We celebrated the release of Keyman Desktop 8.0 with some commemorative t-shirts and mugs. You can win or buy a T-Shirt or Mug yourself! And there's a fun little story about the design as well.
The Keyman keyboard language has two basic types of keyboard layout: positional and mnemonic. In this blog post, I describe the differences between these two types of keyboard layouts, along with notes on now to develop the two layout types.