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UNTIL THIS MORNING when I really, really, really wanted to be able to use y-bar and p-hat in my paragraph, without having to do the even kludgier thing where you just call them “y-bar” and “p-hat” in the text. That doesn’t feel good.Įven Arial Unicode MS, the behemoth of fonts (it even contains tons of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters) does not have essential statistical symbols. But turns out, it DOES have this very useful capability called “combining diacritics” - and here’s how you can use it to type characters with their own hats and bars on them. However, I don’t want to be embedding images if all I have to do is make reference to a variable within a paragraph of text… and I’ve never had a good solution. This works nicely, and even though some people might think it’s a kludge, I kind of like the ability to retain the personality of my own handwriting in my technical documents. This has led me to apply what I like to call “agile shortcuts” - basically, I’ll write down the equation in my own handwriting, take a picture of it, and then use a paint program to crop and clean up my equation before inserting it into my document.

And I have to type equations and expressions not often (like every sentence or every other sentence), but definitely regularly. I use Microsoft Word to prepare documents.

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The ç will appear.Įxample 2: To input French Ç ( Shift+Option+C), hold down the Shift key, then the Option key,then the C key.This is how ILLUMINATED I felt when I figured out how to type statistical symbols in MS Word… the temple at Burning Man 2014. Masculine Ordinal Number (Span/Ital/Portuguese)Įxample 1: To input French ç ( Option+C), hold down the Option, then the C key. The following table shows the keyboard combinations that you can use to create the desired character.

If you press the space bar, the symbol (apostrophe, quotation mark, accent grave, tilde, accent circumflex or caret) is displayed by itself.

If you press the key of a character that is not eligible to receive an accent mark, two separate characters appear.

If you press one of the letters designated as eligible to receive an accent mark, the accented version of the letter appears.

also called the CARET key, ( ^) key, nothing is displayed on the screen until you press a second key: When you press the APOSTROPHE ( ‘ ) key, QUOTATION MARK ( “ ) key, ACCENT GRAVE ( ` ) key, TILDE ( ~ ) key, or ACCENT CIRCUMFLEX.

letters will remain the same, but punctuation like, ” will combine to do the accent as below.

at the bottom toolbar on the right, click on the keyboard icon and choose US International.

check the box for US International, ok at the top right of that area.

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Setting up the International Keyboard – uses punctuation as a code for the accents For other accent needs use the alt number method or insert characters.Ģ.

To put a cedilla underneath the letter “c”, use CTRL+comma before typing “c” or “C” to get “ç” or “Ç”.

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The “6” key becomes a circumflex accent when shifted, so CTRL+SHIFT+6 plus either “a”, “e”, “i”, “o”, or “u” generates “â”, “ê”, “î”, “ô”, and “û”, respectively. CTRL+grave accent (the key to the left of the number “1” on the top row of keys) puts a grave accent over the next vowel typed.