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Step 1 -- move all product help into docs/help folders. Next, will update corresponding scripts. Relates-to: #12347
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title: Using a Keyboard - Keyman for iPhone and iPad Help
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Keyman keyboards are accessed by pressing the globe key whenever an iOS app presents the system keyboard. The following screenshot shows the Keyman EuroLatin keyboard displayed with Apple's Calendar app.
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### Using Gestures on the Keyboard Keys
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Gestures provide ways to interact with the keyboard to produce different text output. Which gestures are available varies depending on the design of the individual Keyman keyboard.
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**Note:** a dot or a small letter in the upper right corner of a key is a hint to indicate that the key supports flick, long press or multitap.
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The Gestures:
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* **Tap:** Tap on a character key to cause the associated character to be output to the app.
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* **Long press:** Press and hold a key, and after a moment a submenu will appear. Continue holding the key and slide to the submenu to select a key. Release, and the selected key from the submenu is output. A key submenu is shown in the following screenshot.
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* **Flick:** hold and slide in various directions on a key to reach alternate outputs. The key will animate to show you the expected output. For example, a keyboard could support sliding down on keys in the top row to output numerals.
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* **Multitap:** some keys produce alternate outputs with rapid, repeated taps. For example, tapping rapidly twice on <kbd>shift</kbd> will activate <kbd>caps lock</kbd> on many keyboards.
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