I'm excited to announce that I (Marc Durdin) will be presenting at the Internationalization and Unicode Conference 36 in October, on the topic "From Typewriter to Touch: Multi Platform Keyboards — Challenges and Illustrations". I will be walking through a number of the complexities and challenges that may not be Read more…
For those of you with a web programming bent, the following may be of interest. We now have 2 APIs available for accessing the Keyman Desktop and KeymanWeb keyboard catalogues. Both APIs are RESTful and return UTF-8 JSON format data only in their initial incarnation. Update 18 Dec 2019: These Read more…
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.
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.
Importkeyboard is a simple tool to convert a Windows keyboard layout to a Keyman keyboard source file.
Learn how to utilise Keyman Desktop's group functionality when designing keyboard layouts, and how to manage end-of-word rules.
A few days ago I was assisting a Tamil customer with a Unicode keyboard they had designed which used visual input order. Visual input order means that vowels such as TAMIL VOWEL SIGN E, U+0BC6 ெ are typed before the consonant with which they combine, even though they are stored Read more…
I have just updated the documentation around the Keyman Developer CRM – specifically, details on how to manage your customer licence records and create new customer licences for your custom Keyman-based products. See http://tavultesoft.com/keymandev/documentation/70/tutorial_crm.html for details!