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 <[email protected]> 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:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On >> Behalf Of *Sieghard Weitzel >> *Sent:* Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:47 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *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. 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