Greek Letters and Superscript

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Greek Letters and Superscript

Is it possible to insert a greek character into pages on the ipad? When I import an office doc containing a greek character, the greek character is present. Also, is it possible to superscript and subscript in pages on the ipad?

IPAD, iPhone OS 3.1.3

Posted on Apr 6, 2010 6:17 AM

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Ralmin

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Apr 7, 2010 10:10 PM in response to kitzj0

I doubt there is any need for other apps, or copy and paste, to enter Greek letters. While the iPad is not available in my country yet, from experience with the iPhone, you should be able to type foreign languages directly into any application. On the iPhone this is how you enable the Greek keyboard: tap Settings, tap General, tap Keyboards, tap International keyboards, slide Greek to on. Then, when typing text, if you want to type a Greek letter, click the icon of a globe that switches between languages. After typing the letters you need, click the globe again to switch back to English.

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Tom Gewecke

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Apr 6, 2010 6:21 AM in response to kitzj0

Is it possible to insert a greek character into pages on the ipad?

There is no greek input available yet, but you can always copy/paste from another doc or use one of the various apps that let you input unicode characters.

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Tom Gewecke

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Apr 6, 2010 6:46 AM in response to kitzj0

is it possible to superscript and subscript in pages on the ipad?

I think for that you may also need to use Unicode super/subscripts either via copy/paste or an app.

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kitzj0 Author

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Apr 6, 2010 6:50 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

I was thinking I could just copy and paste, but I was hoping for another in app solution. I will search for other apps as suggested. If I find anything I will post.

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Tom Gewecke

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Apr 6, 2010 6:54 AM in response to kitzj0

Some apps are Unicode Lab and Unicode Table, at least for iphone. Should also work in ipad.

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Tom Gewecke

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Apr 8, 2010 6:16 AM in response to Ralmin

I doubt there is any need for other apps, or copy and paste, to enter Greek letters. While the iPad is not available in my country yet, from experience with the iPhone, you should be able to type foreign languages directly into any application.

Unfortunately your experience is not of any value in this case. If you read the tech specs for the ipad, you can see that Greek and about 2 dozen other keyboards found in the iphone are not yet included. So there is no way to type Greek directly into an app.

http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

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Jan 10, 2011 3:45 PM in response to kitzj0

I am still struggling to find out how to do superscript and subscript on the iPad. But i am able to use greek letters by enabling the international keyboard:
setting --> general --> keyboard --> international keyboard --> add international keyboard --> Greek
now back out and bring up pages.
select the globe icon on the lower left between numbers and space, to bring up the greek characters.
hit the globe again to return to english.
hopefully this works out for ya.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 10, 2011 3:56 PM in response to jctcremers

Greek input was added with the update to iOS 4.2.

Super/subscript as before can only be done via copy paste.

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Aug 4, 2012 10:46 PM in response to kitzj0

I know this is an old thread but it's still the top result in google for this problem so I'm posting here.

I had been copy/pasting greek letters & other symbols for a long time before I realised this trick today.

Use the iPad's shortcuts feature in keyboard settings for any symbols you use regularly, eg I use "ss2" as a shortcut for 2 and "/-" for ±, still a work around but alot smoother than what I've been doing for over a year with the added bonus of working in any app.

Combined with the greek intl keyboard this is barely a problem, even if it is a glaring omission by apple.

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osnaldo

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Jul 9, 2013 2:15 AM in response to kitzj0

Go to settings, general, keyboards, then add the Greek keyboard

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Apr 4, 2014 12:36 PM in response to kitzj0

I just had need for Greek letters so just added Greek to my iPad then switched keyboard between English & Greek. I also sometimes use German to send some letters (eg ü ö = etc) that need umlauts. I recently had added emoji to my iPhone and now iPad instead typing :-) to get a smiley face. Very easy & handy.

IanMacDavid from my iPad as iMac keeps crashing.

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Apr 4, 2014 12:38 PM in response to kitzj0

Sorry for the "&amp" - I didn't realized this answered in HTML I'd have tried to encode &

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Tom Gewecke

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Apr 4, 2014 12:46 PM in response to IanMacDavid

IanMacDavid wrote:

I also sometimes use German to send some letters (eg ü ö = etc) that need umlauts.

For that you will probably find it easier just to hold down the key for the base letter and choose the accented version from the popup menu that will appear -- no switching of keyboards needed.

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Apr 4, 2014 1:13 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

I just trie that in an email and didn't work. Pressing u just typed a hole kine of u "uuuuuu" and never gave a popup.

Is there something I missed? I'm on iPad using 7.1 iOS.

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Tom Gewecke

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Apr 4, 2014 1:44 PM in response to IanMacDavid

IanMacDavid wrote:

I just trie that in an email and didn't work. Pressing u just typed a hole kine of u "uuuuuu" and never gave a popup.

It certainly works for me, and I've never even heard of it not working for someone. Are you using Mail and typing in the message body?

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