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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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Posted on Apr 7, 2010 10:10 PM

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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Apr 4, 2014 1:50 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Yes Apple Mail on iPad4 running iOS 7.1 but no idea hat version of Mail. How can I find version for iOS apps?

Tom Gewecke

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Apr 4, 2014 1:54 PM in response to IanMacDavid

IanMacDavid wrote:

Yes Apple Mail on iPad4 running iOS 7.1 but no idea hat version of Mail. How can I find version for iOS apps?

The Mail version doesn't matter, iOS has always worked this way.

Can you get the popup menu in Notes or Safari or Pages?

Which keyboard is active? English?

Apr 4, 2014 2:23 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Safari no but pages gave me one shot of showing popup with 5 choices. I tried tapping umlaut-u but it didn't type it, just returned & typed regular u. I've even quit app, purged all open windows from queue and retried - never get popup again.

Tom Gewecke

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Apr 4, 2014 2:27 PM in response to IanMacDavid

Very odd behavior. You might want to try a reset.

Apr 4, 2014 2:41 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Just reset iPad and tried again same result. It's like I was given a once only (like password resets using temp id) and no I'll never see that again if tapping letter is only way to invoke that popup. Or did I miss something else like holding some key before tapping letter I want to modify that I've forgotten after all this trying.

Tom Gewecke

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Apr 5, 2014 5:56 AM in response to IanMacDavid

IanMacDavid wrote:

Or did I miss something else like holding some key before tapping letter I want to modify that I've forgotten after all this trying.

Your keyboard is set to English, right?

Normally the popup appears when you hold your finger on a letter, nothing else required. Shown for example at

http://blogpadpro.com/2012/10/11/ipad-hints-and-tips-special-characters/

Apr 5, 2014 11:21 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Yes keyboard English 99% of time. I switch to German as needed or Greek for characters. I see similar to link you provided but of course u has only 5 choices so much smaller image than examples there. I'm perfectly resigned to using quick keyboard swap but what you're suggesting might be nice for if I wanted an accurate spelling with accent for voila since I never enable French as a choice.

Greek Letters and Superscript