Slaviature (pl. Slawiatura) is a 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
Altkey (sometimes labeled as AltGr). - Upper right corner — available with
Shiftand the rightAltkey.
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
For the correct display of all alphabet symbols, it is necessary to install an appropriate font, such as Doulos SIL, Charis SIL or Gentium