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Localize the About Page

I am publishing a Keyboard App that needs to be fully localized in English and French. The Home and Setup Tabs allow separate localizations, but I’ve been unable to do the same in “About”. I’ve had a...

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Hiding the Suggestions bar

I see an old post where the suggestions bar didn’t show up and I’m jealous. I maintain multilingual keyboards. How can I hide the suggestions bar in a KAB app since I’m not adding Language Models? It...

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New release (v2.3.1): handful of bugfixes

v2.3.1 of The Combine is live, with a handful of bugfixes: Data Entry: Recording audio on a new, unsubmitted entry was broken—now fixed Review Entries: When editing an entry, only one audio recording...

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What's new in Bloom 6.1 Beta

If you’re running Bloom on the beta channel, you’re a vital part of the Bloom team. Your feedback helps ensure that when the beta becomes the release version, users without easy access to technical...

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Announcing the release of Bloom 6.0

Thank you to everyone who helped us test Bloom 6.0 during its Beta phase! We’re excited to announce that it is now officially released. This update brings significant changes, which is why we’ve...

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Large Sample Project?

Hello, I have a group working on a Dictionary PWA. I have access to some projects from testing. However, most of them only have 2k-5k words. Does anyone have a large dictionary that they can share to...

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Lock dividers

Index pages are normally quite complex, and so do pages in a picture dictionary. We would really benefit from a feature that allows you to lock the dividers. In that way you don’t accidentally move...

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How can I store diphthong vowel?

Hello! Right now I’m creating keyboard for a tonal language but I’m new to the Keyman Developer program. So I asked AI(s) for help in creating rules. Here is the context. “a” + “b” > “ā” “a” + “d”...

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Table of Contents for Chapters

I am importing my book from docx but I can’t seem to find a way (easy or otherwise) to have a second table of contents with the chapter headings or sections in it. I can make a second table of...

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Scheherazade New: Double ANGLE Quotation Marks are ROUND

If I type a quotation with Scheherazade fonts with the Double Angle Quotation Marks (the French guillemets, U+00AB, U+00BB) in Word, they look fine with the old font (first line), but with...

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Importing Audio and Audacity marker files

I started using Bloom last year. Our language is the Northern Pwo Karen language. This language uses Thai characters but does not follow all the rules for 100% Thai script. Most of the text for our...

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Keyman 18 is now in beta

We are excited to announce that Keyman 18.0 is officially in beta! Keyman 18.0 beta is free to download from Keyman downloads website. You are welcome to send us any feedback on Keyman community site....

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IPA Symbols do not appear

I have installed Keyman and IPA(SIL) and IPA Total keyboards. but when I check the Keyboard viewer non of the IPA symbols appear and when I try to type using Charis Font the Shift, Option and Option...

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How can we set branch transformation in keyman?

For example I want to set such rule: u + w > ư w > ư however I want to get u + w + w > uw w + w > w how can I reach those rules? 3 posts - 2 participants Read full topic

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Can I set a doublepressing rule in Keyman?

For example, I want to set a double pressing rule, one press w, the output is ư, at the second time the output will be w How can I manage to do so? 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic

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Recording sentence by sentence - export whole audio file

Hello, the possibility to record sentence by sentence is ingenious. Even relatively inexperienced people can record longer texts without errors, because the reading of a single sentence can be...

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ScriptSource contribution: URL for Script Features by Language has changed

The link on the SS page Script features by language (https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=source_detail&uid=wdsa3gym6x) points to an old page that no longer works. It has been...

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More orthography data available at r12a.github.io

I noticed that https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=source_detail&uid=xnjlgrc23k lists only 52 scripts for which Orthography Notes pages exist, whereas there are currently 96...

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Keman keyboard is not rendering on chorme and Mozilla browsers

Hello team, I am usiing keyman keyboard for my shopify store, I have added the code and it’s working fine in the mac safari but when I switch to the chrome or Mozilla browser, its not working, I am...

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.kmn keyboard

I have for years used a .kmn keyboard of my own and been very happy with it. I cannot get it to work with newer versions, It is not on the list of recognized types of files. How can I either: Change...

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SIL Converters Python Scripts not working

I cannot get any python scripts to work in SIL Converters. All I need is to use the ReverseString.py script that comes already packaged with the converters. When I try to use the menu in the Clipboard...

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How to update keyboard without cloning the entire repository

I want to update KM keyboard from another computer because the older computer is no more. Now the build fails and It says keyboard font not found. The keyboard uses shared font. How do I update this...

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Bloom Docs PDF download doesn't mirror online material

I really appreciate all the helpful information provided on the Bloom Docs site. Unless I am mistaken, it used to be possible to download a PDF for offline reading. Now, when I choose ‘PDF Downloads’,...

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Does anyone have a Swahili UI import file for DAB?

I am creating a DAB app and we would like to have the UI available in Swahili. Has anyone translated the UI into Swahili and could give me an import file? 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

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Replace ͷ with ϝ on Polytonic Greek (SIL)

The Polytonic Greek (SIL) keyboard on iOS shows the Pamphylian digamma Ͷ ͷ, in the position of v on a standard QWERTY keyboard. This variety of digamma is rarely ever used. Please consider replacing...

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APK Expansion files

We create RAB apps that contain only Bloom books. To make them available, we need to stay under 200Mb with the AAB file. Is there way to build bigger apps by using APK expansion files? Thanks, Koen...

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Very 1st use! import data, tool, etc (!) HELP!

Hi, I’m a very new user! please HELP Support told me to write here to get suggestions: which tool have I use to write source data in XHTML or LIFT format? which differences are between XHTML and LIFT...

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Upload to Bloom - error about Verdana font

When I upload my book to Bloom, I get a message saying there is a problem because I’m using Verdana font so it can’t be embedded in free books and that the Read and download options will not be...

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Need help getting keyboard to work.

Hi, I am new to this. I made a few keyboards in the developer and installed them, but then nothing happened. My keyboard responds like normal. I am using Windows and figured out how to change the...

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A printing (rather than handwriting) alternative to Andika

As modern websites and mobile phones increasingly adopt sans-serif rather than serif fonts, an open-source sans-serif font that supports advanced typography (OpenType, Apple Advanced Typography and...

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