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Mac Section Symbol

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There are two ways to add the 'section symbol' (§) to documents in word. The case by case way and the macro way.

So in Minecraft, the section sign (§) can be useful to make colors in text and so on. However, I can't seem to type it. I've tried pasting the character in using Ctrl-V as well as middle mouse. I've even tried using xdotool type '§', but it just doesn't register, even though using xdotool type 'foobar' will work. Is Minecraft perhaps just. Your Mac's keyboard likely comes equipped with keys for all your most commonly-typed characters, such as your local alphabet, numbers and a range of common punctuation and basic symbols. OS X has, however, the power to input well in excess of the characters residing on those eighty, or so, individual keys through a handy system of virtual input. Insert Section symbol with Alt code. NOTE: This method can be used to insert Section Symbol in all. Emoji are divided into several categories: Smileys & People, Animals & Nature, Food & Drink, Activity, Travel & Places, Objects, Symbols, and Flags If you don't want to scroll through all of them, you can use the search field to find emoji you'd like to use. Type in the first few letters of the face, object, or action you'd like to use and it. View formatting symbols and layout guides in Pages on Mac. Formatting symbols (called invisibles) like the ones shown below are added every time you press the Space bar, Tab, or Return, and when you add a column break, page break, or section break.By default, you can't see them, but you can turn them on to see where formatting changes have been applied.


In the case by case way, you need to click on 'insert' then 'symbol.' Then click on the 'special characters tab.' The § symbol will be located in the list window. Click 'insert' and you're done. Check out these illustrations!

But perhaps you don't want to do this every time you need the section symbol. If that's the case, you can copy and paste the symbol every time you need it or you can create a macro for it.
To create a macro, go back to the symbol popup screen and click 'shortcut key.' In the next window, figure out what combination of keys you'd like to press to make the section symbol appear. I've chosen 'alt-S.' Click 'assign' and you're all done.



Works for the paragraph symbol (¶), too!


Columns in the tables:

  • Sym: The symbol representing the key
  • Key: The common name of the key
  • CrossPlat?: Whether the symbol is cross-platform. If 'No', then the symbol is unlikely to render properly outside the Apple ecosystem.
  • Alt: An alternate symbol used in some contexts (e.g., legacy)
  • Alt CrossPlat?: Whether the alternate symbol is cross-platform

Modifiers

When a key combination is displayed, the modifiers are written in the order presented here. For example, Control + Option + Shift + Command + Q would be written as ⌃⌥⇧⌘Q.

Word
SymKeyCrossPlat?AltAlt CrossPlat?
ControlYes
OptionYes
ShiftYes
CommandYesNo

The Command key was formerly represented by an Apple logo. The Apple logo is one fo the few symbols here that can be easily typed with a typical keyboard layout: ⌥⇧K

There is also a Fn modifier on modern Mac keyboards. Typically this isn't seen in keyboard shortcuts because it's only used to access keys F1 through F20. However, it can technically be combined with Control plus one other key to get a unique legacy combination. Each of these Fn + Control combinations maps to a character in Unicode's U+F700 to U+F7FF private use range. Some programs will erroneously print these characters upon receiving such a combination. With system Mac fonts, these characters lack visible glyphs, and are for internal use only. Quote from ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/CORPCHAR.TXT:

NeXT's OpenStep reserved corporate characters in the range 0xF700 to0xF8FF for transient use as keyboard function keys. The ones actuallyassigned in NextStep are 0xF700-0xF747, as follows. These are stillused in the Mac OS X AppKit frameworks. Note that there is no glyphassociated with these, and they are not mapped or used by the Mac OSText Encoding Converter.

Normal

Mac Section Symbol
SymKeyCrossPlat?AltAlt CrossPlat?
EscapeYes
EjectYesNo
Delete fwdYes
DeleteYes
Caps lockYes
LeftYes
RightYes
UpYes
DownYes
ReturnYes
❘⃝PowerNo
Page upYes
Page downYes
Back tabYes
TabYes
EndYes
HomeYes
EnterYesYes
Context menuNo
ClearYes
SpaceYesNo
Num lockYes

The alternate eject symbol,  (U+F804), is from a Unicode private use region. How to jailbreak iphone 4 ios 9.3 5.0. Apple designates it for use with mapping to/from the Mac OS Keyboard encoding. Ideally, the official Unicode variant should be used instead, as it will be compatible with fonts on other platforms. Quote from ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/CORPCHAR.TXT:

The following (11) are for mapping the Mac OS Keyboard and Mac OS Koreanencodings (for Mac OS Korean also see 0xF83D, 0xF840-0xF84F).

Mac
SymKeyCrossPlat?AltAlt CrossPlat?
ControlYes
OptionYes
ShiftYes
CommandYesNo

The Command key was formerly represented by an Apple logo. The Apple logo is one fo the few symbols here that can be easily typed with a typical keyboard layout: ⌥⇧K

There is also a Fn modifier on modern Mac keyboards. Typically this isn't seen in keyboard shortcuts because it's only used to access keys F1 through F20. However, it can technically be combined with Control plus one other key to get a unique legacy combination. Each of these Fn + Control combinations maps to a character in Unicode's U+F700 to U+F7FF private use range. Some programs will erroneously print these characters upon receiving such a combination. With system Mac fonts, these characters lack visible glyphs, and are for internal use only. Quote from ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/CORPCHAR.TXT:

NeXT's OpenStep reserved corporate characters in the range 0xF700 to0xF8FF for transient use as keyboard function keys. The ones actuallyassigned in NextStep are 0xF700-0xF747, as follows. These are stillused in the Mac OS X AppKit frameworks. Note that there is no glyphassociated with these, and they are not mapped or used by the Mac OSText Encoding Converter.

Normal

SymKeyCrossPlat?AltAlt CrossPlat?
EscapeYes
EjectYesNo
Delete fwdYes
DeleteYes
Caps lockYes
LeftYes
RightYes
UpYes
DownYes
ReturnYes
❘⃝PowerNo
Page upYes
Page downYes
Back tabYes
TabYes
EndYes
HomeYes
EnterYesYes
Context menuNo
ClearYes
SpaceYesNo
Num lockYes

The alternate eject symbol,  (U+F804), is from a Unicode private use region. How to jailbreak iphone 4 ios 9.3 5.0. Apple designates it for use with mapping to/from the Mac OS Keyboard encoding. Ideally, the official Unicode variant should be used instead, as it will be compatible with fonts on other platforms. Quote from ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/CORPCHAR.TXT:

The following (11) are for mapping the Mac OS Keyboard and Mac OS Koreanencodings (for Mac OS Korean also see 0xF83D, 0xF840-0xF84F).

Reference: ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/KEYBOARD.TXT

These are the official Unicode symbol mappings published by Apple.

SymUnicodeMacKey nameNotes
U+21E70x05Shift
U+23030x06Control
U+23880x8AControlISO
U+23250x07Option
U+23870x8BAlt
U+23180x11Command
U+F8FF0x14CommandOld; solid Apple logo
U+F8FF U+F87F0x6CCommandOld; outlined Apple logo
U+21E50x02Tab right (LTR)
U+21E40x03Tab left (RTL)
U+23240x04Enter
U+24230x09Space
U+21A90x0BReturn (LTR)
U+21AA0x0CReturn (RTL)
U+232B0x17Delete left (LTR)
U+23260x0ADelete right (RTL)
U+238B0x1BEscape
U+23270x1CClear
U+24230x61Blank
U+21EA0x63Caps lock
?⃝U+003F U+20DD0x67Help
U+21920x65Right
U+21900x64Left
U+21910x68Up
U+21930x6ADown
U+21960x66Home
U+21980x69End
U+21DE0x62Page up
U+21DF0x6BPage down
U+F8030x6DContext menu
❘⃝U+2758 U+20DD0x6EPower
U+23CF0x8CEject
英数U+82F1 U+65700x8DEisuJapanese
かなU+304B U+306A0x8EKanaJapanese
F1U+F860 F 10x6FF1
F2U+F860 F 20x70F2
F3U+F860 F 30x71F3
F4U+F860 F 40x72F4
F5U+F860 F 50x73F5
F6U+F860 F 60x74F6
F7U+F860 F 70x75F7
F8U+F860 F 80x76F8
F9U+F860 F 90x77F9
F10U+F861 F 1 00x78F10
F11U+F861 F 1 10x79F11
F12U+F861 F 1 20x7AF12
F13U+F861 F 1 30x87F13
F14U+F861 F 1 40x88F14
F15U+F861 F 1 50x89F15
F16U+F861 F 1 6F16
F17U+F861 F 1 7F17
F18U+F861 F 1 8F18
F19U+F861 F 1 9F19
F20U+F861 F 2 0F20
U+F8020x0F
U+27130x12
U+25C60x13
U+21E30x10
U+21E00x18
U+21E10x19
U+21E20x1A

How To Type Section Symbol

Some entries are missing key names; these don't map to physical keys.

Section Symbol On Keyboard

LTR indicates usage with left-to-right languages: that means text flows from left to right, such as in most Western languages. RTL indicates the opposite. Many keyboards have both Delete Left and Delete Right, regardless of text direction.

ISO indicates a symbol designated by an ISO standard. ISO standard symbols aren't necessarily used by Mac.

Mac Keyboard Shortcut Section Symbol

Symbols composed of multiple Unicode characters are special in that they are treated as a single character on Mac, despite appearing as multiple symbols. For most of the characters, this grouping is controlled by the first character, which is a Unicode private use character that is invisible on Mac. The others use standard Unicode combining techniques. Quote from ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/KEYBOARD.TXT:

Mac Section Symbol Shortcut

The block of 32 characters 0xF860-0xF87F is for transcoding hints.These are used in combination with standard Unicode characters to forcethem to be treated in a special way for mapping to other encodings;they have no other effect.





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