iPad polytonic greek keyboard doesn't have a circumflex?

NickErtel wrote:

My professor requires the official circumflex: ˆ

I don't think I have seen anyone use that recently. If not a tilde, then people use an inverted breve. The technical term for the accent is perispomeni. Try using different fonts -- a few replace the tilde by the inverted breve, but I am not sure if the iPad has any like that.

On your hardware keyboard use the 'ALT/OPTION' key plus the i to get your circumflex up, the circumflex will be highlighted, (^) release the keys, then hold the shift key and select your letter (Î Ê Â etc), which will be inserted with the circumflex.

regards, Ct

Coppertiger wrote:

On your hardware keyboard use the 'ALT/OPTION' key plus the i to get your circumflex up,

He's asking about it for the Greek Polytonic keyboard layout, not the US English layout. Your suggestion only applies to the latter.

Correct - but I have the Greek polytonic keyboard set for hardware in keyboards, and using the ALT/OPTION key pressed lets me type the greek characters. A layout diagram assists in correct character selection. However, I take your comment on board that this not necessarily the solution the poster was looking for. Thankyou for your direction.

Best regards, Ct

Load the romanian font under Settings\General\Keyboard Use the web sign on your ipad keypad to switch between greek and romanian - hold your finger on the i and then select your î

The following is a useful reference too

http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/gkdiacritics.html

Regards, Ct

I have a cludge of a workaround. It's not the most elegant solution.. And the real answer is probably "request that apple add polytonic greek support"

But if your trying to type on your ipad when your Bluetooth keyboard is not around..

I have shortcuts for every option:

Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> add new shortcut

Paste a combo and use what you think it should be as you "shortcut" (more like a long-cut)

So for ῶ or any vowel with a circumflex, I have a shortcut that is vowel immediately followed by ΅

You can make the, whatever you want.

For aspirant mark, I follow whatever it is with a comma like so.. ἤ

Easy at the beginning of a word, but painful in the middle at the beginning of a word press space and then delete a space and keep going, in the middle of a word you need a spacembeforemthe vowel, then move the cursor to delete that space.

Maybe I should repeat that we should all request Apple Support Feedback should just add polytonic support?

If you're interested in a software solution for typing greek polytonic using iPad, there's an application on the AppStore, named "Greek Polytonic" (I found it typing "πολυτονικό" in Greek in the search area), that costs about 4-5 euros, and gives you the opportunity to type using the greek software keyboard, adding on top of it all the necessary symbols (´,`,῀,᾽,῾,ι,¨) for polytonic typing. It's perfect for me, (I'm an Ancient Greek Highschool teacher in Greece), and I find myself using it more often than the polytonic keyboard on my MacBook, since it's much faster.

tsoukadaris wrote:

If you're interested in a software solution for typing greek polytonic using iPad, there's an application on the AppStore, named "Greek Polytonic"

Very useful, thanks! In the US Store it looks like this is called Write Greek Polytonic and costs $4.99.

I think Apple's Greek Polytonic keyboard layout uses the tilde convention for circumflex. It is located just to the right of the P/π.

Switch to Latin. 😉

Coppertiger wrote:

using the ALT/OPTION key pressed lets me type the greek characters.

Do let us know if you find a way to type circumflex over those greek characters on an iPad.

PS In OS X you can get perispomeni represented as an inverted breve instead of a tilde by using these fonts: Arial Unicode, Geneva, Helvetica, Times.