Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma
Hi I have found out that the colon actually is done by making two small lines under each other on the screen. I am not perfect in english, but if you make the two lines straight vertically under each other you never know if it will be a colon og a semi-colon. But if you make them go a little to the left it will always be a semicolon, logical for me because the comma in the button of the semi-colon is usually handwritten as at line that goes a little down to the left. If toy make the two lines under each other go a little to the right it will always be a colon. Karsten Den tirsdag den 24. september 2013 17.21.53 UTC+2 skrev Thom3of5: Hey Cara, I found the colon for you. Like Ron said, you have to do this quickly. Make the two dots, but make sure that one of them is on the top half and one is on the bottom half. *It does not work all of the time, but about a third of the time.* *From:* vip...@googlegroups.com javascript: [mailto: vip...@googlegroups.com javascript:] *On Behalf Of *Cara Quinn *Sent:* Monday, September 23, 2013 3:27 PM *To:* vip...@googlegroups.com javascript: *Subject:* Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Hi Ron, yep, tried that already. Actually that was the first thing I tried. It makes the double-tap sound and a period is printed. Thanks so much though for the suggestion. Smiles, Cara :) On Sep 23, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Ron Pelletier ron.pe...@sympatico.cajavascript: wrote: Hi Cara, Well, the colen works the same way. Just put 2 periods one above the other but you have to do it very quickly otherwise, only one will appear. Ron Danvers *Falling down is part of LIFE...* *Getting back up is LIVING...* *From:* viphone@googlegroups.com javascript:[mailto:vip...@javascript: googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Cara Quinn *Sent:* Monday, September 23, 2013 3:40 AM *To:* viphone@googlegroups.com javascript: *Subject:* Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Hi Ron, I think you're thinking of a semicolon. I was looking for a colon which is two dots on top of each other as you know. :) I did figure out how to get this consistently now so thanks to you all for help! You rock! Smiles, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Ron Pelletier ron.pellet...@sympatico.cajavascript: wrote: Hi Cara, If you tap the screen quickly and follow it quickly with a comma under it, it works every time. That’s why I don’t understand why the comma doesn’t work. Ron Danvers *Falling down is part of LIFE...* *Getting back up is LIVING...* *From:* viphone@googlegroups.com javascript:[mailto:vip...@javascript: googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Cara Quinn *Sent:* Sunday, September 22, 2013 11:32 AM *To:* viphone@googlegroups.com javascript: *Subject:* Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Okay Sieghard, do tell! How on Earth did you get a colon? Each time I try, it gives me a period right after I touch the screen the second time. thanks, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 3:47 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.cajavascript: wrote: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don’t understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the “Handwriting” keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don’t think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a “vertical line”, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailingviph...@googlegroups.comjavascript: . Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators
RE: Handwriting - how to get a comma, colon and other observations
What's the trrick 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
Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma, colon and other observations
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 trrick 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
RE: Handwriting - how to get a comma
Hi Cara, Try doing your 2 dots a bit farther apart and possibly a little slower than you are doing. I don't understand why it works for me. Maybe because I still have my IP 4 which is slower? Could that be the reason? You know these technical things better than I do. Ron Danvers From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 3:27 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Hi Ron, yep, tried that already. Actually that was the first thing I tried. It makes the double-tap sound and a period is printed. Thanks so much though for the suggestion. Smiles, Cara :) On Sep 23, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Ron Pelletier ron.pellet...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Cara, Well, the colen works the same way. Just put 2 periods one above the other but you have to do it very quickly otherwise, only one will appear. Ron Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... From: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com[mailto:viphone@ http://googlegroups.com/ googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 3:40 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Hi Ron, I think you're thinking of a semicolon. I was looking for a colon which is two dots on top of each other as you know. :) I did figure out how to get this consistently now so thanks to you all for help! You rock! Smiles, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Ron Pelletier mailto:ron.pellet...@sympatico.ca ron.pellet...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Cara, If you tap the screen quickly and follow it quickly with a comma under it, it works every time. That's why I don't understand why the comma doesn't work. Ron Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... From: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com[mailto:viphone@ http://googlegroups.com/ googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 11:32 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Okay Sieghard, do tell! How on Earth did you get a colon? Each time I try, it gives me a period right after I touch the screen the second time. thanks, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 3:47 AM, Sieghard Weitzel mailto:siegh...@live.ca siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don't understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the Handwriting keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don't think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a vertical line, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing mailto:viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options
RE: Handwriting - how to get a comma
Hey Cara, I found the colon for you. Like Ron said, you have to do this quickly. Make the two dots, but make sure that one of them is on the top half and one is on the bottom half. It does not work all of the time, but about a third of the time. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 3:27 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Hi Ron, yep, tried that already. Actually that was the first thing I tried. It makes the double-tap sound and a period is printed. Thanks so much though for the suggestion. Smiles, Cara :) On Sep 23, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Ron Pelletier ron.pellet...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Cara, Well, the colen works the same way. Just put 2 periods one above the other but you have to do it very quickly otherwise, only one will appear. Ron Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... From: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com[mailto:viphone@ http://googlegroups.com/ googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 3:40 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Hi Ron, I think you're thinking of a semicolon. I was looking for a colon which is two dots on top of each other as you know. :) I did figure out how to get this consistently now so thanks to you all for help! You rock! Smiles, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Ron Pelletier mailto:ron.pellet...@sympatico.ca ron.pellet...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Cara, If you tap the screen quickly and follow it quickly with a comma under it, it works every time. That's why I don't understand why the comma doesn't work. Ron Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... From: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com[mailto:viphone@ http://googlegroups.com/ googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 11:32 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Okay Sieghard, do tell! How on Earth did you get a colon? Each time I try, it gives me a period right after I touch the screen the second time. thanks, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 3:47 AM, Sieghard Weitzel mailto:siegh...@live.ca siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don't understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the Handwriting keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don't think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a vertical line, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing mailto:viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out
Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma, colon and other observations
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Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma, colon and other observations
A three finger swipe to the right inserts a new line. . Regards, Anita also known as Gadget Girl. Sent via my Apple gadget. Apple, Take a bite, Express yourself! On Sep 23, 2013, at 2:39 AM, Gabriele Battaglia gabriele.battag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. Is there anyway to type a return character? Gabriel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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
Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma, colon and other observations
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
Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma, colon and other observations
That's Pi, interesting, but not what you wanted. - Original Message - From: Cara Quinn modelc...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 8:00 AM Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma, colon and other observations 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
Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma
Hi Ron, I think you're thinking of a semicolon. I was looking for a colon which is two dots on top of each other as you know. :) I did figure out how to get this consistently now so thanks to you all for help! You rock! Smiles, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Ron Pelletier ron.pellet...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Cara, If you tap the screen quickly and follow it quickly with a comma under it, it works every time. That’s why I don’t understand why the comma doesn’t work. Ron Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... From: viphone@googlegroups.com[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 11:32 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Okay Sieghard, do tell! How on Earth did you get a colon? Each time I try, it gives me a period right after I touch the screen the second time. thanks, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 3:47 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don’t understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the “Handwriting” keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don’t think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a “vertical line”, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailingviph...@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visitinghttp://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailingviphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailingviphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visitinghttp://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailingviph...@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visitinghttp://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailingviphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailingviphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visitinghttp://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email toviphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailingviph...@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visitinghttp://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailingviphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailingviphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visitinghttp://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone
Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma, colon and other observations
HI Rob, yes, this was of course, a joke! :) Glad you caught it. However my ability to consistently get the colon to print is not. :) Glad this works now!… Smiles, Cara :) On Sep 23, 2013, at 12:10 AM, RobH. bobs...@googlemail.com wrote: That's Pi, interesting, but not what you wanted. - Original Message - From: Cara Quinn modelc...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 8:00 AM Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma, colon and other observations 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
RE: Handwriting - how to get a comma, colon and other observations
Hi Cara, OK, seriously, these numbers you get if you draw one number and then swipe down must totally have a secret meaning, right? This screams conspiracy *smile*. I think they are, hmm. maybe nuclear launch codes? Happy Monday, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 12:00 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma, colon and other observations 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
RE: Handwriting - how to get a comma
Hi Cara, Well, the colen works the same way. Just put 2 periods one above the other but you have to do it very quickly otherwise, only one will appear. Ron Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 3:40 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Hi Ron, I think you're thinking of a semicolon. I was looking for a colon which is two dots on top of each other as you know. :) I did figure out how to get this consistently now so thanks to you all for help! You rock! Smiles, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Ron Pelletier ron.pellet...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Cara, If you tap the screen quickly and follow it quickly with a comma under it, it works every time. That's why I don't understand why the comma doesn't work. Ron Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... From: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com[mailto:viphone@ http://googlegroups.com/ googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 11:32 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Okay Sieghard, do tell! How on Earth did you get a colon? Each time I try, it gives me a period right after I touch the screen the second time. thanks, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 3:47 AM, Sieghard Weitzel mailto:siegh...@live.ca siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don't understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the Handwriting keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don't think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a vertical line, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing mailto:viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing mailto:viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone
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Hi Ron, yep, tried that already. Actually that was the first thing I tried. It makes the double-tap sound and a period is printed. Thanks so much though for the suggestion. Smiles, Cara :) On Sep 23, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Ron Pelletier ron.pellet...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Cara, Well, the colen works the same way. Just put 2 periods one above the other but you have to do it very quickly otherwise, only one will appear. Ron Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... From: viphone@googlegroups.com[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 3:40 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Hi Ron, I think you're thinking of a semicolon. I was looking for a colon which is two dots on top of each other as you know. :) I did figure out how to get this consistently now so thanks to you all for help! You rock! Smiles, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Ron Pelletier ron.pellet...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Cara, If you tap the screen quickly and follow it quickly with a comma under it, it works every time. That’s why I don’t understand why the comma doesn’t work. Ron Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... From: viphone@googlegroups.com[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 11:32 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Okay Sieghard, do tell! How on Earth did you get a colon? Each time I try, it gives me a period right after I touch the screen the second time. thanks, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 3:47 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don’t understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the “Handwriting” keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don’t think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a “vertical line”, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailingviph...@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visitinghttp://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailingviphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailingviphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visitinghttp://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailingviph...@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visitinghttp://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailingviphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailingviphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visitinghttp://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email toviphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailingviph...@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives
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I have worked out how to do a question mark but I would like to know how to do a full stop. I also had sight until I was in my teens. Margaret Sent from my iPhone On 22 Sep 2013, at 8:47 pm, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don’t understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the “Handwriting” keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don’t think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a “vertical line”, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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I sent you a email previously saying that I can't do a full stop in the hand writing mode but I have now worked out how to do it. I'm the same I can't work out how to do a coma. I can do a lot of the other symbols. I have worked out how to do a dash. What I do is to draw a very small line across the screen and this seems to work. I am enjoying playing around with the hand writing mode. Margaret From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 8:47 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Handwriting - how to get a comma Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don't understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the Handwriting keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don't think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a vertical line, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard _ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2242 / Virus Database: 3222/6188 - Release Date: 09/21/13 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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Isn't a full stop an exclaimation ? Betty Emmons - Original Message - From: Margaret To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:09 AM Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma I have worked out how to do a question mark but I would like to know how to do a full stop. I also had sight until I was in my teens. Margaret Sent from my iPhone On 22 Sep 2013, at 8:47 pm, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don’t understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the “Handwriting” keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don’t think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a “vertical line”, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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Sieghard, I am stumped with commas and apostrophes! I found with the dash you just need to do a very short line. I had a small amount of vision as a child and learned how to print. My sighted husband was helping me to do som punctuation marks the other day and we just couldn't get the commas and apostrophes to identify. In Christ, Lisa On 9/22/13, Margaret Booth margaretebo...@gmail.com wrote: I sent you a email previously saying that I can't do a full stop in the hand writing mode but I have now worked out how to do it. I'm the same I can't work out how to do a coma. I can do a lot of the other symbols. I have worked out how to do a dash. What I do is to draw a very small line across the screen and this seems to work. I am enjoying playing around with the hand writing mode. Margaret From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 8:47 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Handwriting - how to get a comma Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don't understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the Handwriting keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don't think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a vertical line, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard _ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2242 / Virus Database: 3222/6188 - Release Date: 09/21/13 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to
Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma
An easy way to write a comma is to write a dot and than swipe down with 2 fingers until VO says comme. Same way you can reach the dash by drawing an underscore and swiping down with 2 fingers. This is the easiest way to achieve the letters or punctuation marks one is experiencing difficulties with. Greetings, Barbara Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 22.09.2013 um 12:47 schrieb Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don’t understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the “Handwriting” keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don’t think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a “vertical line”, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma
Thanks for letting me know about how to get a comma. I had vision for a long time and have been able to get every single symbol written with the exception of a comm and apostrophe. lol I got quoteation marks a few times but am not sure what I did for that. lol I can draw all the other symbols, even an sign with little difficulty. I am enjoying this feature. It is nice being able to write again and knowing that I remember even if it is with my fingers. lol Kellie, guide Loki and retired July From: Dionesque Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 7:57 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma An easy way to write a comma is to write a dot and than swipe down with 2 fingers until VO says comme. Same way you can reach the dash by drawing an underscore and swiping down with 2 fingers. This is the easiest way to achieve the letters or punctuation marks one is experiencing difficulties with. Greetings, Barbara Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 22.09.2013 um 12:47 schrieb Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don’t understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the “Handwriting” keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don’t think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a “vertical line”, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups
RE: Handwriting - how to get a comma
A full stop is what the Limies call a period *smile*! Being a little Kraut a long time ago back in Germany when I started learn English in school we were also taught full stop instead of period, but later when I had English teachers who spent time in the States that changed. Take care, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Betty Emmons Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 5:28 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Isn't a full stop an exclaimation ? Betty Emmons - Original Message - From: Margaret mailto:margaretebo...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com%3e viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:09 AM Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma I have worked out how to do a question mark but I would like to know how to do a full stop. I also had sight until I was in my teens. Margaret Sent from my iPhone On 22 Sep 2013, at 8:47 pm, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don't understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the Handwriting keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don't think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a vertical line, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone
Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma
Okay Sieghard, do tell! How on Earth did you get a colon? Each time I try, it gives me a period right after I touch the screen the second time. thanks, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 3:47 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don’t understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the “Handwriting” keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don’t think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a “vertical line”, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailingviph...@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visitinghttp://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailingviphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailingviphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visitinghttp://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma
Seagood, Technically a dash is written with a space either side. Does this help you to achieve it? Smiley Carol P Sent from my iPhone using MBraille On 22 Sep 2013, at 04:31 pm, Cara Quinn modelc...@gmail.com wrote: Okay Sieghard, do tell! How on Earth did you get a colon? Each time I try, it gives me a period right after I touch the screen the second time. thanks, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 3:47 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don’t understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the “Handwriting” keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don’t think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a “vertical line”, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailingviph...@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visitinghttp://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailingviphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailingviphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visitinghttp://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Handwriting - how to get a comma
Hi Sieghard I know print letters in both upper and lower case and I have to say I'm doing quite well with the whole thing. I have exactly the same problem you have. I can't enter a comma or an apostrophe. Like you, I can do even the complicated ones like the ampersand or the asterisk but no go on comma and apostrophe. I smiled when you described getting a vertical line and such because I had the very same frustration. As for the dash, I managed to do it several times by doing the horizontal line backwards. Left to right gave me the underscore and right to left the dash. Having said that, it worked several times but is far from being consistent. Maybe it just can't be done yet. Let's see if someone else figured it out Ron Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Handwriting - how to get a comma Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don't understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the Handwriting keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don't think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a vertical line, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Handwriting - how to get a comma
Hi, A full stop is a period. An exclamation is simply a vertical bar with a dot under it and that works very well. Ron Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Betty Emmons Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 8:28 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Isn't a full stop an exclaimation ? Betty Emmons - Original Message - From: Margaret mailto:margaretebo...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com%3e viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:09 AM Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma I have worked out how to do a question mark but I would like to know how to do a full stop. I also had sight until I was in my teens. Margaret Sent from my iPhone On 22 Sep 2013, at 8:47 pm, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don't understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the Handwriting keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don't think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a vertical line, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view
RE: Handwriting - how to get a comma
Hi Kelly, You can get the quotation marks by doing two commas side by side quickly and it works. The and sign can be done easily by doing something that looks like the key of G in music and it thinks it's the ampersand. The asterisk works well if you do it the same way as if you were doing it on paper, sort of a cross mixed in with an X. Ron Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kellie and my lab pack Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 9:26 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Thanks for letting me know about how to get a comma. I had vision for a long time and have been able to get every single symbol written with the exception of a comm and apostrophe. lol I got quoteation marks a few times but am not sure what I did for that. lol I can draw all the other symbols, even an sign with little difficulty. I am enjoying this feature. It is nice being able to write again and knowing that I remember even if it is with my fingers. lol Kellie, guide Loki and retired July From: Dionesque mailto:diones...@interia.pl Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 7:57 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma An easy way to write a comma is to write a dot and than swipe down with 2 fingers until VO says comme. Same way you can reach the dash by drawing an underscore and swiping down with 2 fingers. This is the easiest way to achieve the letters or punctuation marks one is experiencing difficulties with. Greetings, Barbara Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 22.09.2013 um 12:47 schrieb Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don't understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the Handwriting keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don't think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a vertical line, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives
RE: Handwriting - how to get a comma
Hi Cara, If you tap the screen quickly and follow it quickly with a comma under it, it works every time. That's why I don't understand why the comma doesn't work. Ron Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 11:32 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma Okay Sieghard, do tell! How on Earth did you get a colon? Each time I try, it gives me a period right after I touch the screen the second time. thanks, Cara :) On Sep 22, 2013, at 3:47 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don't understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the Handwriting keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don't think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a vertical line, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing mailto:viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma
Once you've entered a punctuation mark, use a two finger flick to choose a different punctuation mark. For example, to get a comma, tap the screen once, and you'll hear period. Now do a two finger flick down, and you'll hear comma. Now you can just move on to entering your next character. On 09/22/2013 06:43 PM, Ron Pelletier wrote: Hi Sieghard I know print letters in both upper and lower case and I have to say I’m doing quite well with the whole thing. I have exactly the same problem you have. I can’t enter a comma or an apostrophe. Like you, I can do even the complicated ones like the ampersand or the asterisk but no go on comma and apostrophe. I smiled when you described getting a vertical line and such because I had the very same frustration. As for the dash, I managed to do it several times by doing the horizontal line backwards. Left to right gave me the underscore and right to left the dash. Having said that, it worked several times but is far from being consistent. Maybe it just can’t be done yet. Let’s see if someone else figured it out Ron Danvers *Falling down is part of LIFE...* *Getting back up is LIVING...* *From:*viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Sieghard Weitzel *Sent:* Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:47 AM *To:* viphone@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Handwriting - how to get a comma Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don’t understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the “Handwriting” keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don’t think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a “vertical line”, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing
Re: Handwriting - how to get a comma
One thing which I found helpful is that I purchased a stylus which works with the phone. It makes it easier if your hands are sweaty. It's lots of fun to play with. On 9/22/13, Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com wrote: Once you've entered a punctuation mark, use a two finger flick to choose a different punctuation mark. For example, to get a comma, tap the screen once, and you'll hear period. Now do a two finger flick down, and you'll hear comma. Now you can just move on to entering your next character. On 09/22/2013 06:43 PM, Ron Pelletier wrote: Hi Sieghard I know print letters in both upper and lower case and I have to say I’m doing quite well with the whole thing. I have exactly the same problem you have. I can’t enter a comma or an apostrophe. Like you, I can do even the complicated ones like the ampersand or the asterisk but no go on comma and apostrophe. I smiled when you described getting a vertical line and such because I had the very same frustration. As for the dash, I managed to do it several times by doing the horizontal line backwards. Left to right gave me the underscore and right to left the dash. Having said that, it worked several times but is far from being consistent. Maybe it just can’t be done yet. Let’s see if someone else figured it out Ron Danvers *Falling down is part of LIFE...* *Getting back up is LIVING...* *From:*viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Sieghard Weitzel *Sent:* Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:47 AM *To:* viphone@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Handwriting - how to get a comma Hello, I am quite intriqued by the new handwriting feature and have been practicing a bit. I have a feeling that if a person knows how to write which I do since I lost my sight at the age of almost 17, this could become a rather efficient method of text input. I actually don’t understand why Apple does not make this available to all iPhone users instead of restricting it to Voiceover users. They could have made Handwriting a keyboard choice so to speak. This way if you added the “Handwriting” keyboard to your list of keyboards, one could have simply tapped on the keyboard button at the bottom to switch to it, but maybe they have their reasons. Anyhow, I would like to know if somebody has figured out how to best insert a comma. I know of course I have to switch to the punctuation area and I have managed to figure out how to do most commonly used symbols like a period, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, Dollar sign, @ symbol, underscore etc. I am still having a bit of trouble with a dash, if you draw a horizontal line across it always interprets it as an underscore. I don’t think I managed to get a comma done more than once and I have no idea how I did it. If I simply draw a line down the screen it inserts this as a “vertical line”, if I give the line a bit of a curve it usually inserts a right parenthesis. Any explanations are appreciated. Best regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post
