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how do you get special characters in posts - Don Shepherd - 12-21-2013 08:43 PM In the old forum, I used links to a special page in the hpmuseum site to get special characters like divide, sigma, and square root. Since this new forum has more formatting options, is there a way to get these special characters without using those special codes now? RE: how do you get special characters in posts - Mark Hardman - 12-21-2013 09:12 PM (12-21-2013 08:43 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote: In the old forum, I used links to a special page in the hpmuseum site to get special characters like divide, sigma, and square root. Since this new forum has more formatting options, is there a way to get these special characters without using those special codes now? The new forum supports inserting \({LaTeX}\) expressions. See the LaTeX? and Forum Thumbs Up! threads for more information. Mark Hardman RE: how do you get special characters in posts - Don Shepherd - 12-21-2013 09:58 PM (12-21-2013 09:12 PM)Mark Hardman Wrote:Thanks Mark. I really don't want to learn a whole new language, I just want to be able to insert a sigma, square root, divide, or multiply symbol. Isn't there a quick and easy way to do that? Latex looks like it is used for complicated math expressions. My needs are much simpler.(12-21-2013 08:43 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote: In the old forum, I used links to a special page in the hpmuseum site to get special characters like divide, sigma, and square root. Since this new forum has more formatting options, is there a way to get these special characters without using those special codes now? RE: how do you get special characters in posts - Katie Wasserman - 12-21-2013 10:17 PM See my suggestion at the bottom of this thread. You can invoke 'charmap' by holding down the windows key and hitting 'r', then type in charmap. RE: how do you get special characters in posts - Mark Hardman - 12-21-2013 11:33 PM (12-21-2013 09:58 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote: I just want to be able to insert a sigma, square root, divide, or multiply symbol. Copy and paste from the following Unicode characters: ∑ √ ÷ × Mark Hardman RE: how do you get special characters in posts - Don Shepherd - 12-21-2013 11:51 PM (12-21-2013 11:33 PM)Mark Hardman Wrote:(12-21-2013 09:58 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote: I just want to be able to insert a sigma, square root, divide, or multiply symbol. OK, thanks Mark. I copied those to the clipboard, pasted them in a Notepad document, saved it with Unicode encoding, and was successfully able to copy from that document and paste in the forum post. That's a solution that will work for me. RE: how do you get special characters in posts - Don Shepherd - 12-22-2013 02:52 AM Well, after much email exchange with Katie, here is what I found: Terminators backslash left paren and backslash right paren do not center text on the line, which is what I want normally. Terminators dollar dollar and dollar dollar center text on the line. The following codes must be surrounded by backslash ( and backslash ) backslash sum gives a large sigma backslash Sigma gives a small sigma (capital S is required) backslash div gives a division symbol backslash times gives a multiply symbol backslash sqrt{2B+1} puts 2B+1 under the radical backslash sqrt{} gives just the radical symbol, nothing underneath it |