I’m very pleased to announce that we are today publishing the first beta of Keyman Desktop 8. This preview release of Keyman Desktop 8 includes a bunch of new features and most importantly full x64 support. This release is very incomplete but we wanted to get the new beta x64 Read more…
Most Keyman Desktop keyboards can be compiled for KeymanWeb without modification. However, there are a few platform differences that it is important to be aware of, and a few differences in the supported Keyman Keyboard Language features between Keyman Desktop and KeymanWeb. The table below details the differences. Feature Keyman Read more…
A month ago we blogged about our new KeymanWeb Wikipedia Plugin. Now you can use KeymanWeb to type in your native language anywhere in Wikipedia. That's right – without a specialised keyboard, you can edit pages, search for information, or participate in discussions in over 200 languages, including languages like Read more…
Another support incident report from Marc and Peirce… Last week we were assisting a Sinhala user who was having trouble selecting Sinhala fonts in Microsoft Word 2003 on WIndows XP: no matter which font they chose, it would switch back to "KaputaUnicode" as soon as they started typing in Sinhala. Read more…
Recently I was asked a question about Keyman involving a display issue with the Hebrew holam vowel point (U+05B9). The problem was that the holem vowel was causing too much space to appear between letters. To reproduce the scenario, I used Keyman Desktop’s Font Helper and the “Getting Started” text Read more…
How we integrated the Tavultesoft KeymanWeb web keyboard into Wikipedia: it was just a few small steps and a couple of hours of graphic design.
I was assisting a Tibetan user with an issue typing Sanskrit stacks today. We were both reading the documentation for the keyboard and both running into the same problem — we just could not get the stacks to form. We were both running in Vista so I knew that the Read more…
Note: this blog is intended for Keyman Developer Branding Pack Users. It is not applicable for Keyman Desktop or KeymanWeb. The default settings for Keyman Engine may not be what you want for your product. It is possible to change the default options by adding the values to the .wxs Read more…
Learn how to create a custom on screen keyboard that does not match the standard 101-key layout.
Microsoft have just announced a set of vulnerabilities with their Embedded OpenType Font component. This component is used in Internet Explorer to automatically download and display fonts on websites. it is especially useful for displaying text in languages not supported by your operating system. Tavultesoft use the Embedded OpenType Font Read more…