How do you do the "therefore" (∴) symbol on a Mac or in Textmate?

Question

Is there a way to write the ∴ therefore symbol with keyboard shortcuts in Textmate or just on a mac?

Petaliferous

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Answer 1

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

Latonialatoniah

Tips: (1) Use a new instance of TextEdit to test your bindings config is working each time you make a change (2) Applications will need a restart for your bindings to take effect! – Prosthetics

Answer 2

First you use a full stop, then you hold down alt and press the letter H and put in another full stop. .˙.

Hairsplitter

worthy innovation, newgaf – Nuptials

there is no 'alt' on a Mac (not to be snarky: I tried this with Option for 'alt' and it doesn't work) – Aman

Answer 3

From System Preferences, turn on the "Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar" setting.

Then, the "Character Viewer" menu will pop up a tool that will let you search for any unicode character (by name) and insert it ∴ you're all set.

Calyptra

This is also available in Edit > Special Characters… – Structure

In Character Viewer, if you add the symbol to favourites, you can access it easily by typing Ctrl+Cmd+Space (which also provides a link to the full character viewer) – Harlow

The emoji picker (⌘^Space) also has special characters. You can search for "therefore" or hit the double arrow in the bottom right (≫) to browse symbols. – Bertsche

Answer 4

The emoji picker (⌘^Space) has special characters. You can search for "therefore" or hit the double arrow in the bottom right (≫) to browse symbols.

Bertsche

Answer 5

If using WORD for mac enable 'use maths autocorrect rules outside maths regions' Type \therefore

Serb

Answer 6

If you are trying to insert the therefore symbol into a WORD DOCUMENT

Hold down the ALT key and type 8756

Hope the answer ur question Regards Al~Hash.

Ultravirus

That applies to a Windows computer, not a Mac – Harlow

I ended up here while I was looking for Windows solution. Thanks – Nafis