I have one of the new RII mini BT and been fiddling for ages and can't get to select text using the keyboard. I think shift and the arrow keys was the last thing mentioned; still nothing.
This is getting too frustrating. R! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ioana Gandrabur" <igandra...@gmail.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 5:25 AM Subject: Re: Text Editing on iOS How about using notes? You can do bold italic there and selecting and moving text works fine with bt keyboard. Best, Ioana Sent from my iPhone On Oct 28, 2012, at 9:24 PM, "Joe" <jsoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > I guess it is kind of contradicting to want plain text and then request > bold, etc. LOL I'm about to start taking an hour and a half commute each > way > to work, and I'd like to find a productive means of spending my three > hours > on the road. Editing documents is one way, and while I understand there is > currently no means of editing Doc or DOCX files, I'd like to see about the > next best alternative. Esther's message earlier about an RTF editor was > promising, but I'd prefer not have to get an iPad just to accomplish some > productive document editing. At minimum, I'd like an efficient means of > manipulating blocks of text from within the same file or between two > files. > > Thanks all for any additional thoughts. > > Joe > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Rob Harris > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 10:05 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Text Editing on iOS > > You want a minimal word processor; those markup tokens only complicate > and > to me, corrupt the notion of Plain Text. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe" <jsoro...@gmail.com> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 1:54 PM > Subject: Text Editing on iOS > > > Hello, > > > > As a follow-up to the recent thread on RTF editors that synchronize with > Dropbox, do any of the plain text apps allow for at least some minimal > formatting such as bold, underline, tab positions, etc.? > > > > Also, what is the text selection process with a bluetooth keyboard? I have > an Apple keyboard, and I'd like to be able to select blocks of text. Am I > correct that this works with a combination of arrow keys and the Command > key? > > > > Thanks for any information. > > > > Joe > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
