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How about making a new English keyboard?

As we know English is a germanic lanuage, however the 26 alphabet is from French and Latin language. That means many letters can only be represented by combinations, such as sh ch ng th ts tr dr qu ou...

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Help with User Interface Translation for New Language Chooser?

A new Language Chooser (demo) is coming to Bloom in 6.2 and we’re pretty excited about it. Soon we will ask you to play around with it and give us feedback, but for now, we’re looking for folks to...

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I just find 2 bug in Keyman in the phone, and keyman in browser

Hello the first bug is that When I set one sentence nul ‘ABC’ + ‘D’ > ‘EFG’ on the keyman developper, this sentence will ‘kill’ the program and make the keyboard shut down on the phone. I must...

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How to remove automatically default layer tranform?

I want to cancel the automatic layer tranform from numeric to default, which sentence should I change? begin Unicode > use(main) begin NewContext > use(NewContext) begin PostKeystroke >...

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Complete List of Languages

Three years ago, John Hatton kindly provided me with a complete list of the languages in which books are available in the Bloom Library. This helped me a lot as I was helping a group of language...

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Undo deleting a text box and other actions not done on purpose?

Hi all. We enjoyed working with the 6.0 version of Bloom during our workshop last week. One thing that came up though, are the limited options to use “Cancel” after having made a mistake. The worst...

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Could we have automatic flow of text to new pages in Bloom?

When creating books with long texts, or when copying and pasting them from Word or Publisher for example, we would love to have an option to make the text overflow automatically to the next page or...

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Unhelpful error KM05001

I am trying to compile a Keyman package, but I am receiving this error: Unexpected exception: Error:...

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Commercial use font

Hello, I want to use Google font under Open font license and already read the license and the FAQ. Because of my first language is not English and It’s quite hard to understand some context. Please...

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S/R On hold

I did Synchronize and after a while I got a pop-up message saying something like: '…this is embarrassing … contact admin" (didn’t get to capturing full message). Now I see ‘On hold’ under Send/Receive...

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New NodeId added and DAB xhtml input

L.S. Jeff Heath found out that the 9.2.5 Flex beta has a new property in the XHTML export, “nodeId”: He wrote in the google flex group: This doesn’t affect the display of the data if you open it in a...

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(SIL) IPA 1.8.7 refuses to type in Charis SIL

I am working on a windows device and in Microsoft Word, but whenever I try to use my IPA keyboard it changes the font to Times New Roman over Charis SIL and it is very confusing and frustrating. I...

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Feature request - "Match whole words off" Option

L.S. We have found that for beginning users who will be searching for words and are not yet well aquinted with the orthography, searches will not result in hits because the “Match whole words” is set...

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Map two keys to one output (one already mapped)

I’m trying to map “a” + “i” > U+0C10. But ‘a’ is already mapped to a different character (+ “a” > U+0C05). Since a is already mapped I’m not able figure how can use ‘ai’ combination to get...

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KeymanWeb17

keyman.com KeymanWeb Language Demo Is it a bug that the keyboard does not change when I select Chinese on the above site? 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic

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Getting formatting of entries just right on DAB apps

Greetings, I’m trying to align the formatting of the multiple senses (i.e. their sense numbers) to the same indentation from the left. I’m using an xhtml source into DAB it is an xhtml file exported...

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What is the minimum Android platform we can use

I’m trying to build a new DAB app. I’m not able to install the app on my phone as I think Android 14 (API 34) is to new for my Samsung, which is Android 13. An internet search suggests that all new...

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Non-latin letters in audio file names

I’m helping a user create a Dictionary App. I can get it to play the audio if the audio file name is uses only Latin letters. But I cannot get the audio to play if the file name includes non-latin...

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Keyman interaction with Paratext spellcheck

This relates to Keyman’s enforcement of shifter-coeung order in Khmer script, in relation to spell checking in Paratext. The intended behavior is that whenever shifter ៉ or ៊ is followed by combiner ្...

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DAB IOS build provisioning profile location

FYI Provisioning profiles are no longer located in ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/ . The new location is ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/Provisioning Profiles . 1 post - 1 participant...

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Is it possible to mark a book as having been read?

Is there a way to have a visible marker showing if a book as been read? This would be similar in kind to the ‘read’ overlay that appears over a read book in an Amazon Kindle product? 1 post - 1...

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Request for Jarai (jra-Khmr-KH) keyboard - Em Space

Could the Jarai Keyboard (jra-Khmr-KH) have Em Space (U+2003) added at SHIFT+spacebar? We never noticed it wasn’t present since in Paratext, we just use a comma and replace it with Em Space later. But...

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Creative Commons in Nepali has a typo

I need to correct th spelling of the Creative Commons license that appears in my Bloom book. I can’t access it to correct it. How can this be changed? 3 posts - 2 participants Read full topic

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**"Keyman App Issue: Language Script Displays but Types in English"**

Hi, I’m new here, so I hope I’m asking this question in the right place. I’m having trouble with my Keyman app. When I upload my specific language script, I can see the characters on the keyboard, but...

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Vedic Sanskrit keyboard continuously presses Alt key on Windows 11

I am using this keyboard: Vedic Sanskrit Devanagari Phonetic (ITRANS) keyboard version 1.3.0. My Keyman version is 17.0.330 and Windows 11 version 24H2 (10.0.26100.3746). It was working fine for some...

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BOOK | CHAPTER heading does not translate to UI language in drop down book...

Bug Report : When using the book selector, there is a bar that opens at the top of the drop down with the two tabs Book | Chapter. The words ‘BOOK’ and ‘CHAPTER’ do not change language when the app UI...

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I found the order of rules can change the effect of rule in keyman developer

For example, I found the rule in above will cover the rule behind. 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic

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I have a suggestion on Keyman developer touch layout

Many keyboard they really have a good design but with a very poor touch layout. Because the designer don’t know how to design a good layout. The default touch layout is almost just print the keyboard...

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Update breaks existing keyboard

Person on my project installed the Keyman update, and the existing customization no longer works. To verify, I installed the Keyman update, and now I have the same experience. I went to check things...

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DAB 12.4 How do I add Internet Permission

I’m trying to test an app that has audio for a friend. We need for the audio to be source from the internet as there is too much for bundling inside the APK. I understand that we need to have Internet...

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