Re: Apple Command Symbol

Hi Mark,

In the message "[MAGNet] Apple Command Symbol",
dated 2004-12-08, Mark Laws wrote:

>I am working on some documentation and want to
>insert the symbol for the Apple Command Key,
>called the Sevärdhet. The little parallelogram
>with loops for corners.
>
>I thought there was a combination of keys that
>would get this, but I can't remember which or
>find them. I also can't find the symbol in any
>symbol fonts I have.

   The Chicago font, present in both Mac OS X and
the Classic Mac OS, contains a variety of symbols
useful in Mac OS documentation, including the
Command Key character. (It's also possible
this/these character[s] might be present in other
fonts; I don't know.)

   To get to OS X 10.3's Character Palette, in
which you can display just about any character
you can type, in any language, including many
specialized symbol characters, either see the
instructions in:

   http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=31442

>If you're running 10.2.x you can simply open
>KeyCaps (I believe it's in the Utilities folder
>inside the Applications folder). If you're
>running 10.3.x you need to open System
>Preferences -> select International -> click the
>Input Menu tab -> check Character Palette,
>and/or Keyboard Viewer -> check "Show input menu
>in menu bar"
>
>Then a little flag will appear in your menu bar.
>You can open the Keyboard Viewer [and Character
>Palette - Aron] from it...

   As an alternative open the Font Book
application that comes with Mac OS X 10.3, and
choose "Special Characters..." from the Edit menu.

   However you enable it, once the Character
Palette window appears, select "Unicode" from the
"View" pop-up menu, and choose "Miscellaneous
Technical" from the list of character blocks,
about half-way down the left-hand side of the
window. You'll see the Command Key symbol
appear, along with other symbols useful in
Macintosh documentation.

   You can click any character and click "Insert"
to insert it into your current document, assuming
your application knows what to do with that
character. You can also drag any character from
the Character Palette window directly into your
document, with that same caveat. Finally, you
can add any character to the "Favorites" pane in
the Character Palette.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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Received on Wed Dec 8 13:33:06 2004