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Greek and Math Symbols

Greek and Math Symbols

(OP)
How does one generate the Greek and Math symbols in this forum?

RE: Greek and Math Symbols

The long way to get to MintJulep's answer:

Click on the "Process TGML" link in Step 2 (below the message box).

In the resulting box, scroll down until you see "Special Characters."  Under that heading, there is a clickable link to "TGML Character Entity Reference" (the table to which MintJulep provided the direct link.)

Click on the TGML Character Reference link and scroll down to the desired symbol.

As a shortcut remember: "bracket, ampersand, semi-colon, close bracket."  Start off with "&", enter the english term, such as "delta", then close with ";".  Put them together with no spaces or quotation marks and you get: δ  

Patricia Lougheed

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RE: Greek and Math Symbols

I'm practicing to see results:

character: ±
numeric:   ±
alt+241 on numeric keypad = ±

Dan

RE: Greek and Math Symbols

There's gotta be an easier way.  I do not doubt Patricia's instructions, but it is still a convoluted way to get math symbols.  It would be nice is there was a simple pull down menu and select the desisred symbol on the fly.

RE: Greek and Math Symbols

minorchord2000,

Contrary to your opinion, there is no easier way.  You can suggest site improvements by clicking the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page.

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Cory

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RE: Greek and Math Symbols

(OP)
testing per VPL :&delta";"

 

RE: Greek and Math Symbols

(OP)
second test: δ

 

RE: Greek and Math Symbols

(OP)
thanks! VPL

RE: Greek and Math Symbols

I always refer to a list of special characters I found in an old DOS manual.

RE: Greek and Math Symbols

(OP)
GrahanBennett- Would you explain how you do this with DOS? briefly.

RE: Greek and Math Symbols

Start up MS word
use Insert Symbol
copy and paste
example below

¢δ½º√♪πεφσω¼◊□нӨא√∞∟∑≠∫™№€₪

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RE: Greek and Math Symbols

Chicopee - The list I have are the alt- special character set.  While holding down the alt key, press a 3-digit code (000 to 255) to obtain the character after releasing the alt key -

Alt + 241 = ±
Alt + 171 = ½
Alt + 248 = °
Alt + 160 = á
etc.

These codes are useful to me for emails and when posting in forums and the like but, as Hydrae says, I would normally use the symbol character set for letters, reports, etc in Word or the openoffice equivalent.

RE: Greek and Math Symbols

The character map in Windows (Start > Run > charmap) also provides various symbols in various fonts that can be selected, copied, and pasted into documents/forms. In many cases when you select the character it will display the key combination to produce that character in the lower right corner (i.e. Alt+0176 for the Arial degree symbol - °)

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