{"id":1493,"date":"2021-04-30T16:06:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2021-04-30T16:06:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:06:45","slug":"nisus-writer-and-custom-keyboard-layouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/nisus-writer-and-custom-keyboard-layouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nisus Writer and Custom Keyboard Layouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A topic that recently arose on the <a href=\"https:\/\/nisus.com\/forum\/\">Nisus user forums<\/a> is whether or not Nisus Writer comes with any custom keyboard layouts. While we don&#8217;t provide any keyboard layouts, Nisus Writer does support all layouts that are available system-wide on macOS. That includes all the default layouts provided by Apple as well as any customized keyboard layouts.<\/p>\n<p>To enable additional keyboard layouts (also called input sources) on your Mac you can visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/mac-help\/type-language-mac-input-sources-mchlp1406\">macOS system Keyboard preferences<\/a>. You&#8217;ll see a host of keyboards available:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/keyboard-layouts-macos-prefs.png\" style=\"max-width:90%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve enabled a keyboard layout for your Mac you can use it all your apps. In addition <a href=\"https:\/\/nisus.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=22&amp;t=3887\">Nisus Writer has special language features<\/a> that can help you automatically switch the keyboard layout based on the language of your document text.<\/p>\n<p>You can also create your own keyboards using tools like <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/ukelele\">Ukelele<\/a> or search for existing pre-made custom keyboards. For example, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isaacbleaman.com\/resources\/yiddish_typing\">custom Yiddish keyboard layout for the Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The sky is the limit when it comes to customizing text entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A topic that recently arose on the Nisus user forums is whether or not Nisus Writer comes with any custom keyboard layouts. While we don&#8217;t provide any keyboard layouts, Nisus&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-express","category-pro","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}