Re: Inserting special characters in TextEdit?

AES wrote:
It's possible to insert Greek letters and other special characters and symbols into an RTF document in TextEdit by following the fairly tedious procedure of

--opening the Font window;

--opening the Character window using the drop-down menu at the bottom of that window (is there a name for the "gear" symbol at the top of that menu?);

--searching through the lengthy list of characters;

and double-clicking on the one you want.

Is there an easier way to do this? Or a printable "cheat sheet" available somewhere that shows all the characters and the associated key combinations or Unicode magic needed to insert each of these special characters into the TextEdit document?


It depends on what language and keyboard you elect to use. Judging by your address at Stanford U., I suppose your default keyboard is U. S. English. You can insert Greek letters by enabling and using the Greek keyboard from the International System Preferences, and Greek capital letters are also in the "alt/option" alternative to the British (English) keyboard. To determine their location select the British keyboard and hold down the "option" key and make a note of what English letter each Greek letter corresponds to. The British solution may be preferable if you don't have a command of Greek and the Greek keyboard.


All the super-, sub-, and otherwise modified -signed letters of all European Latin alphabet languages are available in the U. S. Extended keyboard. To find out how to type them, enable "Keyboard Viewer" and depress "alt" and a key with a sign on it, ex., "6/^", and, after releasing, all letters that can take a circumflex accent will appear in the succeeding display. This means that by typing together "alt" and "6", then typing any of the eligible letters immediately afterward, you will have typed a single circumflex-crowned letter.



A few letters, like "c" with a cedilla, are available by depressing together "alt" and the letter key "c". I have a summary document of all such singly and doubly typed letters available by applying privately to my e-mail address below.


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