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How to type Apple symbol/logo ? #Resolved


 

Howdy.

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This is a text character just like a letter a or b.

Type Option Shift k

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Denver Dan


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On Nov 1, 2019, Daniel Settles wrote:
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This is a text character just like a letter a or b.?
Type Option Shift k
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I had previously done this in? ? System Preferences / Keyboard / Text
I then create some shortcuts like these (screenshot because if I type them, they will?be replaced with their substitutes):


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Jim Saklad
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I¡¯m on my iPad now so can¡¯t test it out, but one way I¡¯ve gotten around it is to start typing, move the mouse, click, then move it back.?

Sent from Barry¡¯s iPad

On Nov 1, 2019, at 4:52 PM, Jim Saklad via Groups.Io <jimdoc@...> wrote:

?On Nov 1, 2019, Daniel Settles wrote:
???
This is a text character just like a letter a or b.?
Type Option Shift k
??

I had previously done this in? ? System Preferences / Keyboard / Text
I then create some shortcuts like these (screenshot because if I type them, they will?be replaced with their substitutes):
<Screen Shot 2019-11-01 at 5.51.08 PM.jpg>


--?
Jim Saklad
jimdoc@...
<Jim logo-tiny.jpg>



 

Is there a way in ipados/ios?

Sent from JT's Ipad - maybe using voice dictation!

On Nov 1, 2019, at 16:44, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:


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This is a text character just like a letter a or b.

Type Option Shift k


 

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Pat

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On Nov 1, 2019, at 4:42 PM, Julian Thomas <jt@...> wrote:

?Is there a way in ipados/ios?

Sent from JT's Ipad - maybe using voice dictation!

On Nov 1, 2019, at 16:44, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:


? ?

This is a text character just like a letter a or b.

Type Option Shift k





 

Howdy.

Yes, you can do the Apple Logo with an iOS device but you have to set
it up first in Settings.

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Copy the above Apple logo character.

On iOS, open Settings>General>Keyboards>Text Replacement

Press the + and create a new shortcut.

Paste the Apple Log in the Phrase box.

Make a Shortcut in the shortcut box. For example, something short,
easy to remember, and it doesn't conflict with some other shortcut.
apl perhaps.

Then you can do ?Watch, ?Pay, etc.

Denver Dan



On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 18:42:14 -0400, Julian Thomas wrote:
Is there a way in ipados/ios?

Sent from JT's Ipad - maybe using voice dictation!

On Nov 1, 2019, at 16:44, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:


?

This is a text character just like a letter a or b.

Type Option Shift k
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Don't forget that you can see and use these "special" characters in Keyboard Viewer. This is in the "flag" menu in the top menu bar.?

With the Keyboard Viewer window open, you can see the effect of the various combinations of modifier keys (Shift, Ctrl, Option).

Otto

On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 20:44, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:
Howdy.

??

This is a text character just like a letter a or b.

Type Option Shift k

?


 

Howdy.

Otto, the "Flag" menu has changed in more recent version of macOS X.
It's called the Input menu and now has a Square icon withe 4 little
hollow square in it.

Keyboard Viewer, as Otto says, is very convenient and has been around
in one form or another since 1984.

Denver Dan




On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 10:52:28 +0000, Otto Nikolaus via Groups.Io wrote:
Don't forget that you can see and use these "special" characters in
Keyboard Viewer. This is in the "flag" menu in the top menu bar.

With the Keyboard Viewer window open, you can see the effect of the
various combinations of modifier keys (Shift, Ctrl, Option).

Otto

On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 20:44, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:
Howdy.

?

This is a text character just like a letter a or b.

Type Option Shift k
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Dan,

Its proper name has always been "Input Menu" but I call it "Flag" because?that is what I see in the?menu bar. So that's changed after all this time?

Otto


On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 11:24, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:
Howdy.

Otto, the "Flag" menu has changed in more recent version of macOS X.?
It's called the Input menu and now has a Square icon withe 4 little
hollow square in it.?

Keyboard Viewer, as Otto says, is very convenient and has been around
in one form or another since 1984.?


 

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Yes. A change. ?I tried to use Screeshot (Catalina) to capture the little menu but Screenshot is often buggy. It sort of froze in a kind of dark mode, menu brightly highlighted, and no screen cap file. I had to restart Mac.?

I¡¯ll do a different cap and edit it had to gallop out the door for an early appointment.?


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iSent from iDan's iPad Air 2019


On Nov 2, 2019, at 7:38 AM, Otto Nikolaus via Groups.Io <otto.nikolaus@...> wrote:

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Dan,

Its proper name has always been "Input Menu" but I call it "Flag" because?that is what I see in the?menu bar. So that's changed after all this time?

Otto


On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 11:24, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:
Howdy.

Otto, the "Flag" menu has changed in more recent version of macOS X.?
It's called the Input menu and now has a Square icon withe 4 little
hollow square in it.?

Keyboard Viewer, as Otto says, is very convenient and has been around
in one form or another since 1984.?


 

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On Nov 2, 2019, at 5:24 AM, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:

Keyboard Viewer, as Otto says, is very convenient and has been around?
in one form or another since 1984.

But less useful than it used to be, I think. I remember (correctly, I hope) a time when it linked to a Font menu, so that one could see the entire spectrum of glyphs a given font could produce by bringing up the keyboard map and selecting an individual typeface.

Of course, it¡¯s possible that was provided by some 3rd party program I no longer use, but I think it was an Apple freebie.

Jim Robertson


 

Howdy.

You are thinking of the Input Menu (used to have a flag icon for your
selected language) and the default items on it called:

Show Emoji & Symbols
And
Show Keyboard Viewer

The icon is a square box as attached below.



The Input menu is turned on (added to Menu bar) in Catalina and some
earlier versions of OS X by going to System Preferences>Keyboard panel
then click the Input Sources tab and check on Show Input menu in menu
bar box.

Denver Dan



On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 07:14:41 -0600, jimrobertson via Groups.Io wrote:


On Nov 2, 2019, at 5:24 AM, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:
Keyboard Viewer, as Otto says, is very convenient and has been around
in one form or another since 1984.
But less useful than it used to be, I think. I remember (correctly, I
hope) a time when it linked to a Font menu, so that one could see the
entire spectrum of glyphs a given font could produce by bringing up
the keyboard map and selecting an individual typeface.

Of course, it¡¯s possible that was provided by some 3rd party program
I no longer use, but I think it was an Apple freebie.

Jim Robertson
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On Nov 2, 2019, at 10:01 AM, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:

You are thinking of the Input Menu (used to have a flag icon for your?
selected language) and the default items on it called:

I remember the flag in the menubar. In the early days of the single-user Mac that flag saved me from a trip to the CooCoo¡¯s nest. My precocious son bedeviled me by installing various romance language keyboard maps; just enough so that my touch-typing produced many misspellings.

What I¡¯m mourning is the loss of font-specific display of glyphs on the Keyboard Viewer. I don¡¯t remember when it disappeared, or why.

Jim


 

On Nov 2, 2019, Daniel Settles wrote:
Otto, the "Flag" menu has changed in more recent version of macOS X. ?
It's called the Input menu and now has a Square icon withe 4 little?
hollow square in it.

It still looks like a flag in my 10.15.1 :



--?
Jim Saklad
jimdoc@...



 

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On Nov 2, 2019, at 9:15 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:

I remember (correctly, I hope) a time when it linked to a Font menu, so that one could see the entire spectrum of glyphs a given font could produce by bringing up the keyboard map and selecting an individual typeface.


That sounds like the 3rd-party application PopChar.
--
PSmith
MacBook Pro (early 2013) w/ Mac OS 10.15, iPad Pro 9.7 inch and iPhone XS Max w/ iOS 13?


 

Howdy.

Otto, here's the tiny Input Menu current icon. The square. I don't
recall when the icon changed.



One can still open the Keyboard panel in Sys Prefs, click the Input
Sources tab, click the + sign and add all kinds of different language
keyboards. One can even add an Australian English keyboard but oddly
it shows right side up.

Denver Dan


On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 11:38:41 +0000, Otto Nikolaus via Groups.Io wrote:
Its proper name has always been "Input Menu" but I call it "Flag"
because that is what I see in the menu bar. So that's changed after
all this time?

Otto


On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 11:24, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:
Howdy.

Otto, the "Flag" menu has changed in more recent version of macOS X.
It's called the Input menu and now has a Square icon withe 4 little
hollow square in it.
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Howdy.

Jim and everybody,

Emoji & Symbols on the Input menu shows font variations and font
names. But you will need to expand the window. Click the Input menu
icon at top right inside the Emoji & Symbols window (to right of the
Search box).

In the column at far right you will see several sub boxes. The
character name at top (with Add to Favorites), then the Related
Characters box, below that (may have to scroll down) the Font Variation
box.

Folks should be aware of the Settings menu - the gear icon at top
left. You can turn on a slew of additional characters with the
Customize List command. Character sets like:

Arrows ? ? ? ?? ?
Box Drawing
Braille Patterns
Bullets/Stars ¡ñ ? ? ?? ? ??
Currency Symbols $ € ? ? ?
Digits
Dingbats
Divination Symbols
Duployan (whatever that is???)
Emoji
Enclosed Characters
Geometrical Shapes
Letterlike Symbols
Math Symbols ¡Á - ¡Þ ¨R
Musical Symbols ? ? ?
Technical Symbols ? ?? ?? ?

And many more.

The Latin set is very useful because it includes descriptor of all of
those symbols like ? (Latin Capital Letter A with Acute).

Denver Dan



On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 07:14:41 -0600, jimrobertson via Groups.Io wrote:
Keyboard Viewer, as Otto says, is very convenient and has been around
in one form or another since 1984.
But less useful than it used to be, I think. I remember (correctly, I
hope) a time when it linked to a Font menu, so that one could see the
entire spectrum of glyphs a given font could produce by bringing up
the keyboard map and selecting an individual typeface.

Of course, it¡¯s possible that was provided by some 3rd party program
I no longer use, but I think it was an Apple freebie.

Jim Robertson
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iSent from iDan's GyazMail on my MacPro


 

Howdy.

PopChar is a great little utility but now costs money. Emoji & Symbols
also does the same things but is included.

Denver Dan


'On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 13:01:09 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
On Nov 2, 2019, at 9:15 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io
<jimrobertson@...> wrote:

I remember (correctly, I hope) a time when it linked to a Font menu,
so that one could see the entire spectrum of glyphs a given font
could produce by bringing up the keyboard map and selecting an
individual typeface.

That sounds like the 3rd-party application PopChar.
--
PSmith
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Howdy.

Suddenly no attachments appearing. I'm not sure why.

Denver Dan



On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 15:10:17 -0400, Daniel Settles via Groups.Io wrote:
Howdy.

Otto, here's the tiny Input Menu current icon. The square. I don't
recall when the icon changed.



One can still open the Keyboard panel in Sys Prefs, click the Input
Sources tab, click the + sign and add all kinds of different language
keyboards. One can even add an Australian English keyboard but oddly
it shows right side up.

Denver Dan


On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 11:38:41 +0000, Otto Nikolaus via Groups.Io wrote:
Its proper name has always been "Input Menu" but I call it "Flag"
because that is what I see in the menu bar. So that's changed after
all this time?

Otto


On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 11:24, Daniel Settles <denver1.dan1@...> wrote:
Howdy.

Otto, the "Flag" menu has changed in more recent version of macOS X.
It's called the Input menu and now has a Square icon withe 4 little
hollow square in it.
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Sound like different versions are being spoken about, but I can see different icons, depending upon the settings in Sys Prefs. The first is with Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar is not selected. The second is with it selected, and both viewers displayed.

Dan, is this the icon of four boxes you described? If not please post an image. The icon to the left of the charged battery.

Of, btw, this is OS X 10.7.5

Brent



On Nov 2, 2019, at 12:30 PM, Daniel Settles wrote:

Emoji & Symbols on the Input menu shows font variations and font?
names. ?But you will need to expand the window. ?Click the Input menu?
icon at top right inside the Emoji & Symbols window (to right of the?
Search box).