While Keyman Desktop 8.0 runs fine with traditional Windows applications, by default it will not run with Metro-style applications in Windows 8, due to added security restrictions. These restrictions prevent the Keyman Engine from reading settings and keyboards when switching to a Keyman Desktop keyboard in a Metro-style application. In Read more…
Have you ever wanted to type in Egyptian hieroglyphs? Today we've released a keyboard which will let you do just that. Christian Casey's Unicode Hieroglyphic keyboard allows you to type Ancient Egyptian on the web and in any application with full Unicode support. Ancient Signs Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have a Read more…
To make it even easier to find all our Ge’ez (Ethiopic) script keyboards, we’ve built a new Ge’ez minisite. In addition to 9 Ge’ez language keyboards, the site includes a FAQ with font help and links to our partner application, GeezWord. Writing Ge’ez Ge’ez is an ancient writing system from Read more…
As part of our roll out of minisites for feature languages, we are keen to announce a new page for Sinhala. The page gathers Sinhalese keyboards and partner applications in a single location for easy access. The Language Over 15,500,000 people speak Sinhala — in the island country of Sri Read more…
Keyman Desktop includes a comprehensive API that allows you to control nearly every aspect of its behaviour. Today I’d like to focus on one small method of automating Keyman Desktop, that is, activating Keyman Desktop via script. The activation process requires three steps: Pass the license key in to Keyman Read more…
While things have appeared to be quiet at Tavultesoft over the last 2 months, we've been very busy working on a number of projects. One area I have been heavily involved in is working through bug reports and crash reports for Keyman Desktop 8.0. We did a lot of work Read more…
Do you speak a dialect of Lushootseed — Salishan languages of Washington state? If you do — and even if you don't, we'd like to introduce you to Dave Sienko's new Lushootseed Unicode keyboard for Keyman Desktop and KeymanWeb. Lushootseed Unicode is designed to follow closely on a QWERTY US Read more…
We've just re-released our Simplified Chinese keyboard (aka CS Pinyin). It's now 64-bit compliant for Keyman Desktop 8. We also have a version of this keyboard that can be used in your web browser or embedded into any website using KeymanWeb! The Many Features of Simplified Chinese If you're a Read more…
Today we’re proud to announce two new Korean packages for Keyman Desktop 8. Korean KORDA The Korean KORDA keyboards are built to type Korean using the transliteration system KORDA (Korean Romanization for Data Application). The KORDA system is based on Korean pronunciation and follows a strict 1-to-1 principle of transliteration. Read more…
Keyman Desktop Configuration can be run with command line arguments to simply automate a number of tasks. It is also possible to use the Keyman Desktop API to accomplish all these tasks, but some are more easily accessed via the command line. The command line program is kmshell.exe, and if Read more…