The source files are in Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator format. Both layouts can be installed on a system simultaneously, and can be removed through the Control Panel. To install, unzip the downloaded file, and run the “setup.exe” program corresponding to the desired layout the installer will automatically add the layout to the input menu. The Windows On-Screen Keyboard also displays the available combinations. Extended layout, or Penn State’s page on the standard Mac layout, substituting the AltGr (right Alt) key for the Option key. keyboard.įor their use, see Penn State University or Harvard for the U.S. Unlike the Windows layout, these do not change the basic U.S. Extended provides more accents and places some characters in more logical positions, but the standard Mac layout provides access to a few mathematical symbols that some might find useful. Extended” keyboard layout introduced with Mac OS X.
layout used on the Mac (also identical to the “Canadian English” keyboard layout), and the other replicates the “U.S. These keyboard layouts fix this situation: one duplicates the standard U.S. Windows supplies an “International” layout with a limited range of accents, but using this layout makes the quotation mark and apostrophe keys unusable. Since the 1980s, Macintosh computers have included a keyboard layout that facilitates the typing of diacritics and other symbols through the use of the Option key.
