For Apple apps, make a text replacement for it:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18439
Other apps like MS Word have their own system for this in their menus.
Answer from Tom Gewecke on Stack ExchangeFor Apple apps, make a text replacement for it:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18439
Other apps like MS Word have their own system for this in their menus.
I found several answers for you here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3685146/how-do-you-do-the-therefore-%E2%88%B4-symbol-on-a-mac-or-in-textmate
a google search is all it took.
In the character viewer under math symbols. ∴
I was searching up how to type the therefore symbol on a Mac but I didn't understand the instruction they said: option + 2234. It doesn't make sense to me because this is what I get: ™™£¢. I have always seen these for other shortcuts which I haven't been able to use because I don't understand what it means and I have tried searching for it on Google but it comes up with these converters and a definition that I don't understand. Unicode = an international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts, by which each letter, digit, or symbol is assigned a unique numeric value that applies across different platforms and programs.
So I would really appreciate anyone who would explain what this is to me as well as how to type the therefore symbol using it. Thank you.
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If you want to do this often, you can create a keybindings file in your Library to map it to a key combination.
In ~/Library create a directory named KeyBindings. Create a file named DefaultKeyBinding.dict inside the directory. You can add key bindings in this format:
{
"x" = (insertText:, "\U23CF");
"y" = (insertText:, "hi"); /* warning: this will change 'y' to 'hi'! */
}
The LHS is the key combination you'll hit to enter the character. You can use the following characters to indicate command keys:
@ - Command
~ - Option
^ - Control
You'll need to look up the unicode for your character (in this case, ∴ is \U2234). So to type this character whenever you typed Control-M, you'd use
"^m" = (insertText:, "\U2234");
You can find more information here: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html
First you use a full stop, then you hold down alt and press the letter H and put in another full stop. .˙.
Office 365 Word 2018
So the therefore symbol on the left is the one I want and the one on the right (U+2234) is the one default one that word accepts as a symbol. I can insert the one on the right with a CMD+OPT+T custom keyboard shortcut (achieved by going to insert (Font: Symbol), selecting the therefore image then keyboard shortcut). Is there anyone to use the therefore symbol I want over the default one? I've tried text replacement in system preferences & word but they won't accept my preferred symbol.
Possible solutions that might work but I don't know where to start:
- Is there a keyboard language that supports this exact symbol?
- Is there a clipboard manager that I can use to store this symbol and then have a hotkey to use it
Usually, I copy my preferred symbol from googling "therefore symbol" and copying the symbol in the immediate definition but this prevents me from copying anything else.