Yesterday I accidentally hit some key(s) on my A1314 wireless keyboard and it produced an italic character on my iPad screen. I don't know what ke(s) I hit, but they were down by the space bar. I can't do it again, but would like to be able to italicize, bold and underscrore. I can't find any hep in either the keyboard or the iPad use guides.
Can anyone help me?
iPad 2, iOS 5.1.1, Wireless keyboard A1314
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I think that text formatting is something that must be built into the text editing app that you are using. You would need to check in the help file for that app to learn exactly how. Traditionally on Macs Command + I = italicize, Command + B - bold and Command + U = underlined. But those don't appear to work with any apps I have for iOS.
As you can see Evernote has rich text formatting.
I thought that the formatting needed to be built in as well, but all of a sudden this italicized f jumped up in a text editor that I use quite often. I thought it might have to do with the funny shaped square at the top of the command key, but I can't get anywhere with that.
SanteeSlim wrote:
all of a sudden this italicized f jumped up in a text editor that I use quite often.
It sounds like you hit Option/alt + f, which gives you ƒ, which is not an italicised normal letter but a special character (Latin small letter f with hook, U+0192)
By George, you got it. And I was hoping I'd accidentally stumbled onto something. ƒ indeed!
Thanks for your response, disappointing as it is. :-)
How can I get italicized characters?
