[INDOLOGY] Easy unicode for ipad? (James Hartzell)

[Malcolm Keating]

Dear Richard,
Keyman is very useful, thank you for sharing that. The only limitation I
can see (which Keyman confirmed when I asked them) is that on iOS, they
don't have access to hardware keyboards when it's running as a system
keyboard.

That means that if you want to use your iPad for sustained composition, in
place of a laptop, you are restricted to the on-screen keyboard if you use
Keyman.

So I think there's still no way to robustly integrate diacritics with a
bluetooth keyboard on iPad. But I'm happy to learn that I'm wrong.

Best,
Malcolm



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> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:31:23 +1200
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Easy unicode for ipad? (James Hartzell)
> Dear James,
>
> Would this help?
>
> Keyman for iPhone and iPad
> https://keyman.com/iphone-and-ipad/
>
>
>
> Best, Richard
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Malcolm Keating via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
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> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Easy unicode for ipad? (James Hartzell)
> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:15:36 +0800
>
> Dear James,
> While perhaps not "easy," here is what I have done:
>
> I opened up the IAST in my browser and went to Settings > General >
> Keyboards and opened up the Text Replacement dialog. It was a bit
> tedious, but using copy-paste, I set up a system of shortcuts which
> would allow me to type, for instance, .s and have the iPad replace it
> with ṣ.
>
> There are two important limitations to this approach, if you want to
> follow it:
> You can't set up 'S and 's for Ś and ś, but instead you must have a
> distinct shortcut like '^s for Ś. This is because text replacement is
> not case-sensitive. If you want to be able to type capital letters,
> you'll need a different shortcut.
> You need to have spaces between the shortcuts. For instance, if I want
> to type "Bhaṭṭa" I can't just type "Bha.t.ta" if my shortcut is .t as
> the iPad only recognizes the shortcut when it is entered as "Bha .t .t
> a." This means that composition is slower.
> I'm not sure why Apple has decided not to enable the ABC-Extended
> keyboard on iPads, and so far I haven't encountered a third-party app
> that allows IAST typing on the OS. If anyone has solved this problem,
> let me know!
>
> Best,
> Malcolm
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: James Hartzell <james.hartzell at gmail.com>
> > To: indology at list.indology.info
> > Cc:
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> > Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 08:41:17 +0200
> > Subject: [INDOLOGY] Easy unicode for ipad?
> > Hello
> >
> > Has anyone found a way to type Sanskrit diacritics in MS-Word on the
> > Ipad?
> >
> > So far my attempts have been fruitless.
> >
> > Cheers
> > James
> >
>
>
>


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