What you need is a nice customisable keyboard row that allows you to assign your most-used characters… Maybe also giving access to your most frequently-used formatting and editing tools, too. 
Hmmmmm! 8)
The most serious solution for an author? Sell the iPad and take a macbook air 11. Everything else is bullshit!
This is a dangerous game you play. very dangerous. Just imagine the results if the dice come up wrong…
But as the venerable Schweinkottfügel keeps reminding us “Some dice have all sixes”. Seems to me Ioa must have such a set to play with … 
Mr X
That would be great, but… it slightly reminds me a short story for children by Leo Tolstoy about a shepherd boy who was having fun shouting “Wolves! wolves!” and alarming the village for no reason. But when wolves did came nobody believed him and all his sheep were killed.
Why would I need two macbook airs 11?
This is the second time it’s been insinuated that I’m a liar in this thread. Thread closed.