Composite characters in Keynote
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From: Stephan Schulz on 20 Oct 2009 18:53 Hi! I'm preparing presentations for lectures I'm giving. I decided to try keynote instead of LaTeX for a try. Some things are a pleasure, but math typography is a pain. Is there a good way of creating a character with a hat or circonflexe on top? I need the equivalent of $\hat{\delta}$ in LaTeX, i.e. a lower case delta with a ^ on top. Yes, I know I can create formulas in LaTeX and import them as PDF, but I'd really like this individual character to behave as a character in normal text. Thanks! Bye, Stephan -- -------------------------- It can be done! --------------------------------- Please email me as schulz(a)eprover.org (Stephan Schulz) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Jim Gibson on 21 Oct 2009 13:54 In article <slrnhdsfps.io4.schulz(a)sunbroy2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>, Stephan Schulz <schulz(a)sunbroy2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm preparing presentations for lectures I'm giving. I decided to try > keynote instead of LaTeX for a try. Some things are a pleasure, but > math typography is a pain. > > Is there a good way of creating a character with a hat or circonflexe > on top? I need the equivalent of $\hat{\delta}$ in LaTeX, i.e. a lower > case delta with a ^ on top. I don't have a working Keynote application here, but most MAc applications these days will support Unicode characters, which include the ability to add diacritical marks to characters. For Mac, you can use the Character Viewer (System Preferences -> Language & Text -> Input Sources) to input special characters, or you can use a keystroke combination: hit option-i followed by any character to put a circumflex over that character: �. Option-u is �mlaut, option-e is acut� accent, etc. Here is a chart of Unicode characters: <http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~tomw/java/unicode.html> -- Jim Gibson
From: AV3 on 21 Oct 2009 17:46 Jim Gibson wrote: > In article <slrnhdsfps.io4.schulz(a)sunbroy2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>, > Stephan Schulz <schulz(a)sunbroy2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I'm preparing presentations for lectures I'm giving. I decided to try >> keynote instead of LaTeX for a try. Some things are a pleasure, but >> math typography is a pain. >> >> Is there a good way of creating a character with a hat or circonflexe >> on top? I need the equivalent of $\hat{\delta}$ in LaTeX, i.e. a lower >> case delta with a ^ on top. > > I don't have a working Keynote application here, but most MAc > applications these days will support Unicode characters, which include > the ability to add diacritical marks to characters. > > For Mac, you can use the Character Viewer (System Preferences -> > Language & Text -> Input Sources) to input special characters, or you > can use a keystroke combination: hit option-i followed by any character > to put a circumflex over that character: ô. Option-u is ümlaut, > option-e is acuté accent, etc. > > Here is a chart of Unicode characters: > > <http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~tomw/java/unicode.html> > I'm afraid that is an over-generalization of how to insert characters like "circumflex." You have to have a typefont with as full an array of unicode characters as possible (ex., Lucida) and you have to choose a unicode-capable keyboard (one of four of the "Extended" keyboards: U. S. English, Finnish, Irish, or Norwegian, depending on which arrangement best suits your typing habits. Even then, you are confined to the letters and/or symbols which can accept the supersign desired; this is indicated in "Keyboard Viewer;" you suggest the typing convention for placing circumflex over selected alphabet letters using the U. S. English Extended keyboard. Unfortunately, the "delta" (identified as 'increment') is not among the receivers of the circumflex, nor is it listed among mathematical symbols "Character Palette." There is a section of Unicode that permits making non-standard combinations, but I don't know what it is. I tried it for fun some years ago, and there was a problem retaining an experimental combination in a document. At that time I was surprised to find that the old System 9 unicode text program "WorldText" was the most retentive. -- ++====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====+====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====++ ||Arnold VICTOR, New York City, i. e., <arvimideQ(a)Wearthlink.net> || ||Arnoldo VIKTORO, Nov-jorkurbo, t. e., <arvimideQ(a)Wearthlink.net> || ||Remove capital letters from e-mail address for correct address/ || || Forigu majusklajn literojn el e-poŝta adreso por ĝusta adreso || ++====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====+====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====++
From: Stephan Schulz on 22 Oct 2009 07:55 In article <hbnvfb$g3s$1(a)news.albasani.net>, AV3 wrote: >Jim Gibson wrote: [Unicode] >> For Mac, you can use the Character Viewer (System Preferences -> >> Language & Text -> Input Sources) to input special characters, or you >> can use a keystroke combination: hit option-i followed by any character >> to put a circumflex over that character: ô. Option-u is ümlaut, >> option-e is acuté accent, etc. Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that, but had no success. Modifiers don't want to combine with Greek letters. >I'm afraid that is an over-generalization of how to insert characters >like "circumflex." You have to have a typefont with as full an array of >unicode characters as possible (ex., Lucida) and you have to choose a >unicode-capable keyboard (one of four of the "Extended" keyboards: U. S. >English, Finnish, Irish, or Norwegian, depending on which arrangement >best suits your typing habits. Even then, you are confined to the >letters and/or symbols which can accept the supersign desired; this is >indicated in "Keyboard Viewer;" you suggest the typing convention for >placing circumflex over selected alphabet letters using the U. S. >English Extended keyboard. I use US English extended (My Mac has US layout, most of my work is coding, but some of the rest is in German, so I need Umlauts). >Unfortunately, the "delta" (identified as 'increment') is not among the >receivers of the circumflex, nor is it listed among mathematical symbols >"Character Palette." There is a section of Unicode that permits making >non-standard combinations, but I don't know what it is. I tried it for >fun some years ago, and there was a problem retaining an experimental >combination in a document. At that time I was surprised to find that the >old System 9 unicode text program "WorldText" was the most retentive. Ok. For now I've settled for LateX-It and hand-located characters in a non-matching font. Ugly as hell, but I try to transfer knowledge, not impress students with the beauty of my typestting... Bye, Stephan -- -------------------------- It can be done! --------------------------------- Please email me as schulz(a)eprover.org (Stephan Schulz) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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