Dear Esther, Thank you so much for this review of Textilus. It sounds like an attractive application, better than Pages.
I shall give it a go. Best wishes Andrew On 28 Oct 2012, at 09:30, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jane and Others, > > Jane asked: > Is ther a good ERTF file editor for the DropBox to install on an iPod? > What is it, if there is sucha thing? > > I've just come across an app that might be usable for editing Dropbox > RTF files for the iPad, but there's no version for the iPhone or iPod > Touch. It's called Textilus Word Processor and the developer is > knowtilus. Here's the URL at the iTunes app store: > http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textilus-word-processor/id537818639?mt=8 > > I found this because it just went on sale today for $0.99, and I > haven't had a chance to play around with this much yet. The way this > works when you create or edit a document is that there's an extended > keyboard with an extra row of buttons above the top row of letters. > The buttons on the top left of the keyboard are for alignment, bold, > italic, underline, special characters, other commands, and tabs (which > weirdly gets announced as "capital A"). Then at the top center is a > "Magic Cursor" button that you have to use the double tap and hold > gesture to bring up, which does actions like select all or move to the > start or end of the document. On the top right are the buttons for > font type and size. > > The top row buttons let you handle formatting and special characters. > For example, "Other Commands" lets you select options like title, > subtitle, heading 1, heading 2, ordered list, or unordered list in > addition to subscripting, superscripting, and the default body style. > "Special Chars" lets you insert web links, date & time, as well as > several classes of special symbols, such as bullets, currency, arrows, > punctuation, math symbols, etc. These lists are pretty extensive, and > there are more symbols than VoiceOver on the iOS device will read, > especially in categories like pictographs, arrow variations, or some > of the math symbols, but most special character options are announced. > There's also a "recently used" category of special characters. > > One feature I wasn't able to change with VoiceOver was the line > spacing. Double tapping the "Helvetica" button brings up a "Text > Style" pop up menu, but the size and line spacing of the font don't > get announced here. Font size is announced and can get changed with > buttons to the right, either by choosing common font sizes, or by > increasing or decreasing the current font size with buttons. > > Dropbox linking can be set up using the "App menu toolbar" button on > the "My Documents" titlebar. There's a document that appears in your > list of documents named "How it works?" when you link with Dropbox. > It explains that it creates an "Apps/Textilus" folder under your > Dropbox, and that only documents placed ther will sync and show up in > the Textilus app. You can place RTF, .TXT, .DOC, or .DOCX documents in > this folder. Empty folders in this location will be removed from the > document picker and unlinked. > > Textilus also supports syncing with Scrivener, which is a Mac writing > application that also now has a Windows version. (The Mac version of > Scrivener is very accessible, but I don't know about the Windows > version. However, there are free trial downloads of both from the > Literature and Latte developer's site.) Maybe some Windows iPad users > can try this app out and report back. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > -- > 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.
