Keyboards and typing

Shipped boards:

Page	Role
qwerty_main	Full QWERTY plus edge mouse / look-to-scroll / window AHK strips
example_keyboard	Compact 3×12 letters / shift / symbols
uw_qwerty	Wide QWERTY (drawer More)

Letter cells use Send: send="q" taps q into the focused OS window (Windows SendInput). Optional edge and hold: send="a,Down", send="a,500". A comma key is send=",". Named keys (Enter, Tab, F1…F12, OEM names) and US shifted punctuation (! injects 1 plus a transient Shift) are listed under Actions — Send.

Editing keys on the shipped boards are Command mapping names, so the composer can intercept them: backspace, tab, enter, space, escape, delete, arrows, home / end / pageUp / pageDown. Those names fall through to resources/mappings/default.json (keyTap of the matching virtual-key). clearPhrase is Ctrl+A then Backspace; speakPhrase is Ctrl+Enter.

Modifier cells (leftShift, leftCtrl, leftAlt, leftWin, and the right-hand names) are commands that cycle OS hold: Up → Down → LockedDown → Up. After a standard Send tap, a one-shot Down modifier is released, so leftShift then send="q" types Q. releaseModifiers clears every slot. activeState="mod.shift" (also .ctrl / .win / .alt, and .locked variants) paints the key on.

Shift and symbol layers are extra grids on the same page (layers="2", layers="3"). A Shift cell runs ShowLayers instead of holding a physical shift key for the letter grid. Caps on the composer keyboard is the same pattern.

While the action’s source page is the composer (compose or a compose live board), Send and mapping/modifier commands are captured into the internal phrase. qwerty_main still types into Windows. Details: Actions — Composer capture.

See Authoring pages for XML, Actions for every Send / Command option, Commands for the name catalog, and Speech for the composer keyboard.