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Yeah, exactly. To be completely honest, I'm also used to write my blog posts with an editor and then paste them into Wordpress or whatever engine I'm using. This way I can exploit the editor at the maximum to get exactly the Html I want inside the text (CMS's are good for managing, less for authoring).

And I'm writing more and more company documentation with XML… you get the picture. :)
If money amounts are reasonable, I'm pretty willing to get more advanced editing features as in-app purchases.

Thanks again!
As an example, I'm writing an ebook now and every chapter is an HTML file. When I start a new paragraph, the first word has the initial in uppercase. After a full stop, the initial of the following word must be uppercase, and so on.

When entering text on the iPad virtual keyboard, about 10% of what I type contains some typo… and becomes OK thanks to Auto-Correction, or Spell Checking. In Textastic I'm fixing all of this manually and the process is extremely time-consuming.

A switch would be great. If it takes too much work, just read and honor the system-wide settings. If I don't want Auto-Correction, I go in Settings and disable it. And, when switching from Textastic to Pages, is my duty to set Auto-Correction as I like it in that app.

Thanks for the feedback and for all the work.

lux