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.
When using Windows Live Mail 11 with the European Latin keyboard, you may find extra apostrophes appearing when trying to type words such as café. This would appear as caf'é. Similarly, typing a Hungarian word such as ősi would appear Read more…
We celebrated the release of Keyman Desktop 8.0 with some commemorative t-shirts and mugs. You can win or buy a T-Shirt or Mug yourself! And there's a fun little story about the design as well.
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.
The Tavultesoft Character Identifier breaks down a Unicode string to show you how it is constructed, and identifies the fonts on your system which will work best with the text you have entered.
Learn how to utilise Keyman Desktop's group functionality when designing keyboard layouts, and how to manage end-of-word rules.
Have you ever encountered an email with a puzzling J or L sitting in the middle of the text? I certainly have! Here's the story. Outlook (and Word), for many years now, has included an autocorrect feature that converts :-) Read more…
This blog post is a refresh of some documentation that has been buried for years on the Tavultesoft website. It is perhaps less important now than it was 5 years ago, but it is still helpful for those poor souls Read more…
As part of the Keyman Desktop 8.0 release work, we needed to give the Tavultesoft website some attention: the pages were looking dated, and the content had grown over time and was getting out of control. The Tavultesoft website has Read more…