I think it is important to understand Keyman’s basic keyboard layout model, and the nuances of that model, before moving on to the more complex mnemonic layout model.Ī positional layout, in Keyman terms, is a Keyman keyboard that defines its rules according to the position of keys on a physical keyboard. So what is a mnemonic layout? Well, I’m actually going to start by defining a positional layout.
The same concepts apply to more dissimilar scripts such as Tamil, Lao or Korean. But first, for those who have trouble with the word mnemonic:įor this blog post, I’ll use Greek as an example keyboard layout, because the similarities between Greek and Latin letters are familiar to many, and will help in explaining the principles of mnemonic layouts. 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. The Keyman keyboard language has two basic types of keyboard layout: positional and mnemonic.
