Announcing the release of Keyman 10 We are excited to announce that Keyman 10 is now ready for download! This release of Keyman is especially significant: Keyman is now open source Keyman is 100% free This is the first release of Keyman from SIL Keyman 10 is available in simultaneous Read more…
Introduction to the Roadmap Update: see the latest version of the roadmap In this blog post, I have written up our roadmap for Keyman for the next couple of years. This roadmap depends very much on the resources available to our team, and it will change over time. It is Read more…
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.
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…
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…
We are pleased to announce the launch of KeymanWeb 2.0 as an open source software product, under the Apache License, Version 2.0. What is KeymanWeb? What is KeymanWeb? It’s an open source input method framework for the web, supporting desktop and touch keyboard layouts, which works in all modern browsers. Read more…
I recently discovered a number of comments on our blog that had gone unnoticed, and for which we received no notification. I’m sorry: I want to respond to all the comments and questions. Now that I’ve found the comments, I’ll respond here, even though it’s really too late! Obviously, we’ll Read more…
If you currently use Keyman Desktop 6, 7.1 or 8.0, you may have questions about whether you should upgrade to version 9.0 or not. This post outlines the various upgrade paths and provides information on the pros and cons of each upgrade path. Before getting into the details, Keyman Desktop Read more…