I am a Spanish writer. It would be nice to have access to special characters common to us in Scrivener for iOS. For example, when writing a question, we surrounded it with two different question marks, i.e. ¿Cómo estás? The same happen with exclamation (¡!), etc. Although we can customize the extra row in the Scirvener’s keyboard, the options are limited to character more common in English. Please, consider adding common-in-Spanish characters or allow us to add any character we want. That is one of the reason why I don’t use Scrivener for iOS as much as I would like.
Have you tried doing a long-press on the ./? key, or ,/! key. The former gives you a choice including ¿, the latter includes ¡
This is a UK English onscreen keyboard, if you are using a Spanish onscreen keyboard the characters may be differently allocated. If you are using an external keyboard, they will be available on that in their normal positions for your language keyboard settings.
This is a question for iOS, I think. Creating individual keyboard layouts for all the languages which people might use Scrivener for is more than should be expected of KB … if he did it for Spanish, the people will ask for Hungarian, and then Turkish, Swedish, Czech, etc. KB has already provided the possibility of customising the top row, but to find out whether you can customise it to include specific characters, you should check the tutorial.
Mark
That is the problem, that every second I need long press something.
I know how to type any character I need, that is not the problem. Thank you very much.
I am not taking about the iOS’s keyboard, but about the extra row that Scrivener added for formatting, comments and such. The row that sit on top of the iOS keyboard.
Yes, because is bad and annoying to have users asking for features in their languages, c’ com!
The thing is that Scrivener has character shortcuts in that extra row (on top of the built-in keyboard), but with limited option. I am proposing a wild character option, something where the user can add whatever he wants, not the common-in-English characters only.
Imaging that. You are writing a dialogue that start with a question. Easy. You just press the quote shortcut and then tap your question, perfect. Now, if you are writing it in Spanish (and even using the built-in Spanish keyboard on iOS) you first have to press the key [123], then long-press the dash character [-], so you can have the em-dash [—]. After that, you have to long-press the key [?] in order to find [¿]. After that, and only because Scrivener doesn’t know that Spanish writers start dialogues with the em dash, you have manually uppercase the first character of your sentence. Don’t believe me, try writing the next (and you can use English or Spanish keyboard, doesn’t make any different for this one):
—¿Cómo te fue? —dije yo para probarte mi punto—. ¡Supongo que no tan fácil!
All dialogues in Spanish start this way, so, imagine the struggle l. Luckily for us, most writing apps in the App Store give us shortcuts to these symbols, and also overwrite the iOS auto-capitalize function to ignore the em dash and other opening characters (¿, ¡, etc.). Most writing apps like Ulysses, iA Writer, etc. but not Scrivener.
If you long press one of the characters or symbols in the extended row, you find a list of characters to pick from. I am just asking for the posibility to add any character and not only those convenient for English users.
Sorry for misspellings and mistakes, as you know, I am a Spanish speaker.
Hi,
Could you please list the punctuation marks that are missing? I’ll be happy to add them? So:
¿
¡
Any others?
All the best,
Keith
Thank you, Keith.
Basically this two, yes (¡ ¿), but also, the date format and language. Inserting a date with the extra keyboard key add the date in English even when the keyboard is in Spanish. This one is a minor detail but it would be nice.
Finally, this may be because of iOS default, but Spanish writers begin A LOT of stencences with these three symbols, alone or together (em dash, ¿ and ¡) It would be great if the ”Auto-Capitalization” feature could ignore them for this matter. Starting a regular sentence auto-capitalize the first letter, but when one of these character are present the first letter doesn’t capitalize (and this is very common in Spanish). Again, thank you. Happy holidays!
Another idea is to have this characters in pairs, because they are always used that way in Spanish. The same as (), [], {}, «», etc.,like ¿? and ¡! So, it would be more economical and simple to have this characters togheter in pairs rather than having them by themselves like ¿, ?, ¡, ! as the will use more extra room in the expandend keyboard with out the need.
Okay, I’ve added ¡ and ¿ as options for the keyboard row for the next update. I’ve also added ¡! and ¿? which work like brackets and quotes etc (I actually had exactly the same thought).
As for inserting the current date, that just calls on iOS’s standard date format. It says, “Insert the long date and short time based on the current system settings”, so I’m not sure why you aren’t seeing that come out as expected.
Also, auto-capitalisation is all Apple’s code on iOS, not my own, so I have no control over that, I’m afraid.
All the best,
Keith
That’s is just perfect. Thank you very, very, very much!
P. S. Any date for this update?
And related to the “insert date”, I suspected this. But it is ok because I don’t personally use this feature as much. The problem must be that, as a lot of Spanish users, I still use English as the system language. It is the same with my Mac. Everything is in English, we just type in Spanish. Therefore the date, base on the system language, output it in English. So, it is the system language, no the keyboard setting what is being use as the standard. So, no mystery here 
. I hope this ansewer your question.
Even to this date, I can’t find this option. It has been added?
I haven’t found this option event to this date. Is there a problem with the implementation? Thank you.