Fwd: keyboard access to some special characters

[Clark Cox]

I mistakenly sent this off-list:

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From: Clark Cox <clarkcox3 at gmail.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2007 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: keyboard access to some special characters
To: David Herren <david at idiomatrix.com>


On 4/22/07, David Herren <david at idiomatrix.com> wrote:
> This is perhaps not a purely OSX administrative question, though it
> has to do with "student" administration on a Mac...
>
> I need to be able to type the radical characer regularly : √

Option-v

>
> Lots of fonts have this character, but I can't for the life of me
> find a way to type it without opening the character palette.

Note, that if you open the keyboard viewer (it's in the input menu,
which can be enabled in the International pane of System Preferences),
and hold down various modifier keys, you can see, on the faces of the
keys, what would be typed were you to press that key with the current
modifiers.

> I need to use the  radical sign (√) as a checkmark (note there is a
> "real" checkmark character in a number of typefaces, but I can't use
> that for cross platform reasons. I can't even rely on copy and paste
> because the software in question (Jackson Software's GradeQuick 11)
> doesn't support copy and paste of data in the student gradebooks
> (unbelievable, I know). I have to be able to type the character (or,
> as I have been doing, use the Character palette).
>
> Anyone know of any secret keyboard gymastics that will allow me to
> type the radical: √

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Clark S. Cox III
clarkcox3 at gmail.com


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Clark S. Cox III
clarkcox3 at gmail.com