I keep my phone in touch typing mode and when I need to enter an accented letter or even the ñ as my last name is Muñoz, I'll slide my finger on the virtual keyboard until I find that particular letter and tap the keyboard somewhere else with another digit (split tapping or whatever it's called). . After that, i can lift my finger and flick and go around the keyboard as though I was in standard mode typing and double tap and hold on that particular letter until the chimes are heard and VO announces that alternative characters are available. Once that's done, it's a simple sliding back or forth until I find the accented letter I want and just lift my finger.
I did for a time have the secondary Spanish language keyboard on my iPhone, but found it to be redundant And a distraction since I can access all the different letters and symbols (inverted question marks, inverted exclamation marks, etc.) with the split tapping while never leaving touch typing mode and so on mentioned above. Hope this helps. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 4:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ABout writing Spanish letters on Iphone Hi, the best way I have found to do this is by first making sure your typing is set to standard instead of touch. This means that when you tap on a letter, it behaves just like any other button or control on the iPhone. This means that you have to double-tap after first selecting the letter. Once you have it set this way, you can double-tap and hold on the letter you want, the letter A for example, then as you hold on the screen, drag it left or right and you will hear the various accented letters. Just release your finger when you get to the one you want and it will be entered. On a side note, since I don't care for standard typing, I prefer the touch typing, what I tend to do is use DDragon dictation. I can set that to Spanish, and then I can speak whatever I want. I have to use Dragon because Siri doesn't currently understand Spanish. I think you have a 3GS, so Siri is not an issue anyway. Good luck. -- Raul A. Gallegos Life is tough...it's tougher if you're stupid. - John Wayne Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 Facebook: http://facebook.com/rau47 On 9/11/2012 1:55 PM, Gerardo Corripio wrote: > HI guys: I've got a Spanish Iphone 3gs with the Spanish keyboard in > which the way I write Spanish accented letters is get to the letter, > do a double tap and hold; flick left/right to get to the accent I want > and let go; I ask this because in a podcast I heard that the accent is > written by holding on the letter, but why doesn't this method work on > my Iphone? How do you guys write Spanish accented letters for those > who happen to know Spanish and use the Iphone to work in Spanish? > > Gerardo > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
