Slaviature

Slaviature (pl. Slawiatura) is a custom keyboard layout for the Slavistic Phonetic Alphabet.

Each key can have up to four different characters assigned, arranged symbolically in the corners of the key:

• Lower left corner — the default character, entered by pressing the key alone.
• Upper left corner — available with Shift, usually producing an uppercase version of the character shown on the key.
• Lower right corner — available with the right Alt key (sometimes labeled as AltGr).
• Upper right corner — available with Shift and the right Alt key.

For example, to type ä, press the right Alt and a. In the documentation, this is written as Alt + a.

To enter a more complex symbol, such as ã, first press a, then Shift + Alt + ` . In the documentation, this is written as a, Shift + Alt + `. For an even more complex symbol ä̃ – Alt a, Shift + Alt + `.

The second and third symbols use a diacritic character available on the key with the ` symbol in the upper-right corner. Slaviature provides eleven diacritic characters that can be used to compose more complex symbols.

The full list of keyboard combinations is available in the documentation: SlaviatureDocs.pdf

This repository contains versions for:

• Debian/Linux
• Windows
• Keyman (available on Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux and Android)

Requirements:

For the correct display of all alphabet symbols, it is necessary to install an appropriate font, such as Doulos SIL, Charis SIL or Gentium