Thursday, October 25, 2012

Note to self: Mac Keyboard and ‘fancy’ characters

Special Symbols and Characters on the regular Mac Keyboard

These are for the British Keyboard layout 

Currency Symbols

$ dollar Shift+4
¢ cents Option+4
£ pound Shift+3
¥ yen Option+y
Euro Option+2

Trademark and Copyright Symbols

© copyright Option+g
® registered Option+r
trademark Option+Shift+2

Apple Symbol

apple Option+Shift+K

Math and Greek Character Symbols

± plus-or-minus Option+Shift+Equals
µ micro Option+h 
π pi  Option+l (as in L is for llama) 
square root  Option+t 
÷ divided by  Option+/ (slash is key to the left of right-hand shift key) 
· middle dot  Option+Shift+9 
almost equal  Option+x 
not equal  Option+= 
infinity  Option+Shift+T 
less than or equal  Option+, (comma) 
greater than or equal  Option+. (period) 
Å Angstrom sign  Option+Shift+K, Shift+A 
summation sign Option+Shift+F 
° degree sign Option+Shift+0 (zero) 
partial differential  Option+d 
integral  Option+Shift+D 
Ω Omega  Option+Shift+Z 

Copyediting, typesetting, and miscellaneous symbols

double dagger Option+Shift+semicolon
pilcrow sign Option+7
§ section sign Option+5
bullet sign Option+Shift+8

Punctuation marks

left single quotation mark Option+]
right single quotation mark  Option+Shift+]
left double quotation mark  Option+[ 
right double quotation mark  Option+Shift+[
« left pointing double angle quotation mark Option+\ (backslash)
» right pointing double angle quotation mark  Option+Shift+\ (backslash) 
single left pointing angle quotation mark  Option+Shift+3
single right pointing angle quotation mark  Option+Shift+4
¡ inverted exclamation mark  Option+1 
¿ inverted question mark  Option+Shift+? 
ellipsis  Option+; (semicolon) 

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