PagePlus KeyboardThe PagePlus keyboard is designed for 102 key UK keyboards. Many shortcuts have been assigned for easier typing of Pāli in applications that do not support keyboard customisation. The keyboard uses dead keys for typing composite characters with accents.
Using Dead KeysTyping a dead key seems to do nothing, but when another key is typed afterwards a composite character is produced. Characters that are not assigned to a composite will produce the dead key character plus the character typed, e.g. ` followed by 1 will type `1. A dead key
followed by space will type the dead key character, e.g. ` accent. No ModifierThe grave accent is a dead key for typing composites with grave accent — àèìòù and ÀÈÌÒÙ. It can also be used to type n, w, and y with grave. N, Y, W after ` will type the capitals with grave. ShiftShift grave is a dead key for typing composites with acute accent — áéíóúś and ÁÉÍÓÚŚ. It can also be used to type c g k l m n p r s w y and z with acute accent, and the corresponding capital letters. Shift 6 (^) is a dead key for typing composites with circumflex accents — āâêîô and ÂÊÎÔÛ. It can also be
used to type c g h j s w y z with circumflex accent. Underscore is used as a dead key for typing composites with macron: a e i o u g and y. Sanskrit consonants with macron on l dot and r dot can be typed in the same way with underscore followed by l or r. Icelandic Eth (Ð ð) is composed from underscore and D or d. The tilde is on the shift key above #. Type ~ followed by n or N to type ñ or Ñ, and for vowels with tilde — ãẽĩõũ and ÃẼĨÕŨ. It can also be used to type v and V with tilde. Control Alter or AltGrA number of Ctrl Alt combinations will type vowels with acute and other symbols as illustrated above. W with circumflex is used for Welsh. Figure width space (Ctrl Alt 0) and Punctuation Space (Ctrl Alt ;) can be useful for aligning columns of figures. Interrobang (Ctrl Alt ?) indicates both query and exclamation. En-dash (Ctrl Alt N) and Em-dash (Ctrl Alt M) will be overridden by the default shortcuts for en-space and
em-space in earlier versions of PagePlus. In PagePlus X3 you can remove these assignments as they are available with Ctrl Alt Shift. Control Alter 2 (“) is the dead key for typing composites with diaeresis (umlaut): äëïöü and ÄËÏÖÜ. It can also be used for typing h t w x and y with diaeresis, and n or m with dot above. Control Alter 6 (^) is the dead key for typing composites with caron (hacek): a e i o u c d g h l n r s t and z will type those composites with caron. Control Alter Apostrophe duplicates the function of Shift Grave, to type composites with acute. Control Alter Comma is the dead key for typing composites with cedilla: c d e g h k l n and r. Control Alter Period is the dead key for combining dot below: b d h k l m n r s t v w z and … Control Alter Shift or AltGr Shift
A number of symbols can be typed directly with Control Alter Shift as illustrated above. You may need a Unicode font to display all of them. Zero width space (Ctrl Alt 0) can be used to let words break at the margin without a soft hyphen being inserted. Swung dash is often much longer than a tilde — more like an em-dash or en-dash. Control Alter Shift 2 (“) is the dead key for double acute (Hungarian umlaut). O and U with double acute can be typed with this dead key. Control Alter Shift 6 (^) is the dead key for composites with breve: a e i o u and g Control Alter Shift Apostrophe (@) is the dead key for ring accent: a and u. The degree sign ° can be
typed with Ctrl Alt @ followed by @. Control Alter Shift Comma is the dead key for typing composites with Ogonek: a e i o and u. Control Alter Shift Period is the dead key for typing composites with dot above: a b c d e f g h i m n o p r s t w x y and z. | 
To install a keyboard — extract the files in the archive to any convenient location, then double-click on the installation program to install the keyboard. The PagePlus keyboard package includes the source file so you can modify it as you wish using the 
