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. Any explanations are appreciated.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Sieghard
>>
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