It has become utterly useless for viewing Private Use Area mappings. Unfortunately, this is no longer possible because the Keyboard Viewer no longer allows the selection of a custom font. Up to Mac OS X 10.4, the systems Keyboard Viewer could be used very elegantly to display the keyboards characters. The easiest way to view the tengwarQWERTY keyboard layout on Mac OS X is the already mentioned file keyboard-20091211.pdf.

Now you can choose tengwarQWERTY from the Input Menu in the menu bar at the top right margin of the screen, and after choosing it, the Input Menu will display the tengwarQWERTY icon:ĭisplaying the Keyboard Layout on Mac OS X Selecting the keyboard layout: After restarting (or logging out), open the System Preferences, select International, then Input Sources (or Input Menu), find the entry tengwarQWERTY and select the checkbox next to it.Then restart your computer (or log out and log in again). Installing the keyboard layout: Move both the files tengwarQWERTY.keylayout and tengwarQWERTY.icns from the opened ZIP to either one of the folders /Users/(your User name)/Library/Keyboard Layouts/ or /Library/Keyboard Layouts/ (to uninstall, just remove them from there).Open that ZIP file (doubleclick will do). Obtaining the files: Download the latest release by clicking on TengwarKeylayout-mac.zip/download (alternatively, go to the Free Tengwar Font Project files and manually select the latest TengwarKeylayout-mac.zip file).It takes three steps until you can choose the tengwar keyboard layout from the Mac OS X Input Menu at the top right of the screen: Tolkien’s book The Lord of the Rings or from Måns Björkman’s site Amanye Tenceli. You have to know the tengwar spelling from somewhere else, for instance from J. Indeed, if you just type ahead, they will most likely produce utter nonsense. They do not produce reasonable tengwar spelling by themselves. Be aware that the tengwar keyboard layout only provides a way of accessing the tengwar characters.

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