SIL International is very pleased to announce that Keyman is now completely free and open source! Today, 23 August 2017, we released free versions of the existing Keyman products on the Keyman website, and have simultaneously launched our open source version of Keyman on GitHub. Keyman is a complex product Read more…
As part of the transition to SIL, we’ve moved all the content from blog.tavultesoft.com to this new site, hosted on WordPress.
This is a quick technical note on different ways to activate Keyman Desktop for system administrators. Activation using a command line tool The simplest way is using the command line for kmshell.exe (located in Program Files (x86)TavultesoftKeyman Desktop 8.0): kmshell.exe -activate <key> [-s] Details on kmshell commands can be found on Read more…
We have many hundreds of keyboard layouts online at keyman.com that cover well over a thousand languages. These keyboard layouts work on Windows, the web, iPhones, iPads and Android phones and tablets. However, most of the layouts on the website are only available in compiled form, and in the past, Read more…
This video shows you how you can use Keyman Pro to type in Amharic in any app on your iPhone or iPad. If you have any questions or suggestions, send us an email, or ask on Facebook or Twitter! Visit our website to learn more about the Keyman Read more…
In part 1 of this series, we looked at the steps involved in creating a basic Android app which included a Keyman in-app keyboard. In this post, we’ll work with the second sample included in the Keyman Engine for Android package, which is a very basic System Keyboard app. This Read more…
Note: You must have a license for Keyman Engine for Android in order to access the resources documented in this blog. (Purchase a license) Keyman Engine for Android allows you to use any Keyman touch keyboard in your Android app, or even to create your own system keyboard app for Read more…
This is just a short blog post to describe our in-house tool for creating key images, such as the ones shown below. How to use the key image generator Visit http://keyman.com/support/keytemplate.php Type the key sequence you wish to use, such as Ctrl+Alt+C Backspace. You can use any Unicode character on Read more…
For many years, Keyman Desktop has adapted layouts to work more accurately with European hardware keyboards. For example, a US English keyboard has a top alphabetic row of QWERTYUIOP, but a French keyboard has instead AZERTYUIOP. Keyman makes sure that if, for example, you are typing Greek on a French hardware Read more…
Earlier this month, we conducted an internal review of our product offerings and development status. As a result of this review, we determined that we would stop developing and distributing several products. This is important to help us focus on improving our core products without spreading ourselves too thinly. This Read more…