Hello. From the punctuation mode, put one finger on the screen to make a period. Then swipe up or down with two fingers to toggle through this selections. If you swipe down, the next selection should be a comma.
Regards, Anita also known as "Gadget Girl". Sent via my Apple gadget. Apple, Take a bite, Express yourself! On Sep 24, 2013, at 8:37 PM, "Dulce Muccio Weisenborn" <d...@lifedesigns-inc.com> wrote: > What’s the trrrrrrrrrrick for writing a comma that doesn’t turn into a > parenthesis? > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Dionesque > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 11:40 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma, colon and other observations > > I manage the colon by drawing a quick short vertical lines one under another. > Frankly. drawing actualy 2 dots don'd seem to work for me at all. > > Von meinem iPhone gesendet > > Am 23.09.2013 um 09:00 schrieb Cara Quinn <modelc...@gmail.com>: > >> Hi Sieghard, >> >> when I swipe down from a period, I get the number series: >> >> 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 >> >> Oh, sorry that was after I drew a circle! lol! Oops… :) >> >> Anyway, I just figured out that I can get a colon consistently by doing the >> following: >> >> • Do a very small swipe (I did left to right) >> >> • Do a single tap some distance above it >> >> YOu can also alternate the very small swipe and tap as to which one you do >> first. >> >> I do mean very small. For some reason this seems to really make a difference >> and to me at least, is very helpful in consistently getting the colon. >> >> Hope this helps! >> >> Smiles, >> >> Cara :) >> On Sep 22, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: >> >> Hi Cara, >> >> OK, here is the trick: >> >> Make sure you hold the phone behind your back, face in a northwesterly >> direction and then lift up one leg. Now tap the screen simultaneously with >> both pinky fingers 1 and a quarter inches apart and at the same time spin >> around in a circle on the one leg you are standing on. It doesn’t even >> matter if you stand on your left or right leg, “it just works” *smile*. >> >> OK, joking aside, following Barbara’s instructions regarding the comma that >> is pretty easy now, do a period, a quick swipe down with 2 fingers to select >> the comma which is next in the list and then a 2-finger swipe right for a >> space. >> >> Now, one would think a colon is easy and when I practiced in the email body >> field and tried various symbols, I was able to do a colon a few times >> successfully just by very quickly tapping the screen once, one tap towards >> the top and a second tap towards the bottom. I experimented more with this >> now and it seems that it is slightly more successful when the two taps are >> farther apart, but then again other times I tapped fairly far apart and got >> a period every time. >> >> A Quotation mark seems to be somewhat more consistent, just draw a vertical >> line and then once again very quickly draw a second one a bit further to one >> side, I don’t think it matters if you draw one and then move right for the >> next or vice versa. >> >> I thought also one should be able to pick the colon from a list just like >> the comma. The comma is consistently there if I do a period and then swipe >> down once with 2 fingers. However, there are only 5 symbols in this list if >> I do a single tap for a period: >> >> Period >> Comma >> Semicolon >> Apostrophe >> Quotation Mark >> >> I thought Apple did what Fleksy did and grouped similar symbols into groups >> so basically you draw one symbol and depending on what you draw you get a >> group of 5 or 6 other symbols, for example, draw a Question Mark and get an >> exclamation mark, a hyphen, underscore etc. Draw a Dollar sign and get other >> currency signs and so on. >> >> At first it does appear it is like this, but if I repeat something like >> writing a word and then drawing a question mark which I can do pretty >> consistently, I can swipe down and each time it seems I do this or erase and >> type another word followed by a question mark I swipe down to find different >> symbols. Only one where there is consistency is with the period, comma, >> semicolon, apostrophe and quotation marks. >> >> Another interesting observation is that if you go to numbers and write a >> number, for example a 1, if you then do a 2-finger swipe down you get >> seemingly random but repeating numbers and it appears there are always 8 >> numbers. For example, I wrote a 1, then I swipe down with 2 fingers >> repeatedly and I get this: >> >> 19587630 >> >> If I keep on swiping it repeats over and over. Now type a 2 and you get >> another 8 digit number, but if you do this on different occasions it appears >> you get a different number, e.g. type a 1 and you may not get 19587630 next >> time but another 8 digits. >> >> I wonder if they do offer selections with a 2-finger swipe down, then why >> not make it consistent, e.g. you type a 1 and then you swipe down and get 2, >> 3, 4,5 etc. >> >> I think this handwriting feature has great potential and I will inform Rob >> from the Today in iOS Podcast about this feature since it does not appear to >> be available for sighted users. I think this could and should become >> mainstream and Apple needs to develop this into the best and most efficient >> handwriting recognition application out there. I bet there might be >> jailbreak apps which allow people to use handwriting. >> >> I am normally fairly good at recognizing patterns and methods behind the >> application of stuff, but this does leave me a bit baffled and wondering if >> this is something that was implemented but is just not fully thought through >> or if I am totally missing something. If Apple can do this, I wonder how >> long it will be before braille input on the touch screen is something they >> adopt as well, hopefully they approach developers of some of the apps people >> use now and like instead of doing it themselves, taking it away from these >> people and possibly do it not as good. Same goes for something like Fleksy. >> >> When you look at all of these apps and technologies like SIRI/voice >> recognition or handwriting and then try to see the big picture, there is >> just so much potential for super cool stuff and I think there is room for >> more “revolutionary” break-through and not only “evolutionary” upgrades. 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