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    How to integrate Colemak with a keyboard installed from Keyman?

    • Started by Kaveh
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    • Registered: 10-Aug-2025
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    I am using the IPA (SIL) keyboard from Keyman [https://help.keyman.com/keyboard/sil_ipa/2.0.2/sil_ipa]. I was wondering if it is possible to change the keyboard layout from a QWERTY (I believe US International) to Colemak? I couldn't find any files in the registry for the IPA keyboard, just for the record. Keyman Configurations (which is auto installed) along with Keyman allows you to change the base layout of the keyboard but for some reason Colemak (Caps Lock unchanged) isn't there. It'd be really helpful if someone could suggest a work around or an alternative to this situation.

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    • From: Viken, Norway
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    Once you enter the (paid?) world of Keyman, I believe there's few options. You could check if it plays well with the EPKL program for instance, but I kind of doubt it.

    On a side note: I've wanted to make a SIL layout for EPKL for quite a while, but I haven't really needed it so it hasn't been done (yet). It'd use some different principles from Keyman, such as phonologically based dead keys.

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