SYMBOLS | KEYS | DESCRIPTION |
“ | Option [ | Opening quotation mark |
” | Option shift [ | Closing mark |
‘ | Option ] | Opening apostrophe |
’ | Option shift ] | Closing apostrophe |
– | Option Hyphen | En dash |
— | Option shift hyphen | Em dash |
… | Option ; | Ellipsis |
ª | Option 9 | |
· | Option Shift 9 | Decimal Point. |
º | Option 0 | Degrees. (Temperarure) |
• | Option 8 | Bullet mark |
° | Option Shift 8 | Another Bullet mark |
¶ | Option 7 | Paragraph mark |
‡ | Option Shift 7 | Footnote |
§ | Option 6 | Another footnote |
fl | Option Shift 6 | Ligature of f & l |
∞ | Option 5 | Infinity |
fi | Option Shift 5 | Ligature of f & i |
¢ | Option 4 | 2⁄4 time signature |
# | Option 3 | Hash Mark. The Americans call it a Pound sign. |
» | Option Shift \ | French closing quotation mark |
› | Option Shift 4 | French closing apostrophe |
‹ | Option Shift 3 | French opening apostrophe |
« | Option \ | French opening quotation mark |
€ | Option 2 | Euro currency sign. Cue Al Murrey |
™ | Option Shift 2 | Trademark |
© | Option g | Copyright sign |
® | Option r | Registered sign |
¡ | Option 1 | Spanish punctuation |
¿ | Option Shift / | More Spanish Punctuation |
⁄ | Option Shift 1 | Division sign. |
÷ | Option / | Division sign. |
ç | Option c | |
ç | Option shift c | |
Π | Option p | Lower case Pi |
Π | Option shift p | Upper case Pi |
Ω | Option z | Omega |
æ | Option ' | |
æ | Option shift ' | |
≠ | Option = | Does Not Equal |
≈ | Option x | Approximately equal to |
Monday 15 June 2009
Just a quickie
I’ve got to admit, I’ve just had Dr Paul — he of Dr Paul’s Quiz — ask me how I got a certain character to appear on Facebook. The ‘æ’ sign, to be precise.
I had to be honest, and tell him that it’s done by hitting Alt and ‘'’; not something that’d be available to him, under Windoze.
I also know I’ve a wide range of these available to me; certainly from Mac OS X 10.4.x, and right up to now, as I’m using Mac OS X 10.5.7. And I don’t see Apple not using them in Snow Leopard, which see’s its release in September of this year.
So, to follow on from the keyboard Shortcuts guide I did in April, here’s some helpful keyboard shortcuts for non-standard characters in Leopard …
I’d also like to thank David Pogue, of The Missing Manuel fame; I’d’ve never known about these, if it wasn’t for his very helpful indexes …
Hope those are helpful!!
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