Using Silkey

SILKey The SIL Keyboard Manager System for Macintosh Designed and implemented by Jonathan Kew Version 1.1 — 29 October 1996 Distributed by: SIL International Publishing Services 7500 West Camp Wisdom Road Dallas, TX 75236, U.S.A. Address feedback and questions to the address above or: Internet: fonts@sil.org Phone: (972) 708–7495 Copyright notice The SILKey package is copyright ©1996 by the Summer Institute of Linguistics. It is distributed as copyrighted freeware (not placed in the public domain). The complete SILKey package (software, documentation, and sample files) may be freely used, copied, and distributed, but it may not be sold for profit without the express permission of the author and publisher. For example, it may be posted to an online system or bulletin board, provided users will not be charged for downloading it (as opposed to standard connect-time charges); it may be included in disk or CD–ROM software collections provided the only charge for these is to cover media and similar overheads, and no profit is realized from their sale. Using SILKey 1.1 Page 1 Cover & Copyright Introduction SILKey is a suite of programs that can be used to modify the behavior of the Macintosh keyboard when typing in any standard Macintosh word processor or other text-editing program. It is possible to remap keys (make them generate characters other than the standard ones), to alter the sequence in which characters are entered into the document, to prevent illegal combinations being typed, to combine sequences of keystrokes into single characters, to generate multiple characters from a single keystroke, and other types of behavior. The development of SILKey was inspired by the excellent KeyMan program for Windows (available from address above or www.sil.org); however, it is neither a port nor a clone of KeyMan. (There is no KeyMan code in SILKey, nor is it fully compatible with KeyMan keyboard files.) SILKey should run on any Macintosh with any variety of System 7. It has been tested to some extent with various sub-versions of system 7.1 and 7.5. It has not been widely tested, however, and bugs and incompatibilities doubtless remain to be discovered! The SILKey system has three components: SILKey Extension is a small extension that allows SILKey to monitor and modify the key sequences being typed, no matter what application is in use. It must be installed in the Extensions folder for SILKey to work. The SILKey application actually processes the keystrokes as you type, following the instructions in a keyboard file. SILKey must always be running (in the background) for a SILKey keyboard to be used; if you quit SILKey, the keyboard immediately reverts to the standard operating system behavior. Weaver is the keyboard editor and compiler. It is used to create and modify keyboard files. Using SIL…