Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago
If you wanted, and I realize that not everyone wants to go through this effort,
you could create a custom keyboard where these symbols/characters are available
as long key presses. I created a keyboard that has an additional row. In that
row are a few keys that give me access to common symbols. For example, I moved
all the accented characters that I would likely use to a single key (é, with
popup characters àâèêïôöùçñ), and then put the common symbols as
popups on the normal alpha keys. I have parentheses as keys (with popups for
other parentheses types), a @ key with common symbols that I couldn't fit on
the alpha keys (¢€£¥¯_·°`), and a * key with common math symbols not
already on the alpha keys (≠≈≤≥×⊕√∏∑π).
I also included arrow-left and arrow-right keys on the top row, and then hide
the built-in top row.
I plan to create a symbol keyboard with shapes I might want, and I'll just use
the language key to toggle keyboards (i.e., I'll only have those two). I think
it should work well.
On the other hand, if you like the alpha keys the way they are, you could
create a new QuickText popup (replacing the smiley key), and put a bunch of
symbols in that (that's the only popup you can do with ASK that will let you
use multiple rows).
I actually created my own QuickText also that has a subset of smileys, keys
that output common email addresses (with abbreviations shown in the popup
instead of full addresses), a set of common shape symbols not already on the
keyboard, and a subset of greek characters for equations, etc...
Original comment by kati.com...@gmail.com
on 27 Apr 2012 at 6:06
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
mov...@gmail.com
on 22 Apr 2012 at 7:49