How come my custom keyboard layout won't work in Pages?

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How come my custom keyboard layout won't work in Pages?

Greetings.

I have created a custom keyboard layout through the program Ukelele. When I had saved it and selected it as the current keyboard layout, I begin to type and it types as if the keyboard layout were the default US. I changed the font thinking some of the characters must not show up in some of the fonts, nothing; still typing in a default US format. I then went to TextEdit and it worked perfectly fine. It acknowledged the custom keyboard layout I was using. :

My question(s) is(are): How come in TextEdit my custom keyboard layout can work, but in Pages it doesn't? Is there something I need to change for Pages to start using my custom keyboard layout?

- With regards:

OSxOS (T. Levi Drayton)

System Info: MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), Pages (5.5.2)

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Jan 14, 2015 5:20 PM

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DSweeris

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May 2, 2017 10:01 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

I had the same issue, except with Notes (I didn't try Pages). If the layout was installed in "/Library/Keyboard Layouts", it wouldn't work, but if I installed it to "~/Library/Keyboard Layouts" (that is, only installing it for the current user as opposed to system-wide), it works.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 14, 2015 6:12 PM in response to OSxOS

WWhat does your custom layout do exactly? Normally it should work fine with pages. Send me a copy ( tom at bluesky dot org )

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Jan 14, 2015 6:26 PM in response to OSxOS

Did you restart Pages after you changed the keyboard?

Peter

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OSxOS Author

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Jan 15, 2015 3:22 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

The layout just uses a different and custom alphabet I chose.

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Jan 15, 2015 3:22 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

I did. I also logged off and logged back on (as the Ukelele tutorial advised me to do), and still nothing.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 15, 2015 7:01 AM in response to OSxOS

Thanks for sending the layout. It installed properly in Home/Library/Keyboard Layouts and I was able to select its (generic) icon in the "flag" menu at the top right of the screen, and it worked fine in Pages 4 and Pages 5.

Another place you could ask is

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ukelele-users

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