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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From: Malcolm Keating via INDOLOGY <indology@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

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> From: James Hartzell <james.hartzell@gmail.com>
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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
>