Displaying Keyboard Key Glyphs
Displaying Keyboard Key Glyphs
- Subject: Displaying Keyboard Key Glyphs
- From: Steve Bennett <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:11:44 -0500
Hi!
Back in the Classic days (and still visible in the classic version of Key
Caps today) it was possible to display characters using the system font
which represented a whole variety of special keys on the keyboard, such as
the Command, Control, or Option key, the arrow keys, insert/delete, and many
more. In fact most of the keys on the keyboard had a glyph associated with
it that was in the system font. Most of these were obtained using a control
key sequence -- for example, the character symbol representing the Option
key was displayed as a Ctrl+G.
A quick look at the native Key Caps application shows that this is no longer
the case, presumably due to the switchover to Unicode everywhere. After
quite a bit of searching, I found docs which pointed me to system
preferences and turning on the Symbols keyboard layout in the International
preferences. With that layout selected, the Command key glyph was
obtainable in Key Caps (and other Unicode-savvy apps) by typing
Shift+Option+Semicolon.
However, I have been unable to find all of the symbols on this layout (or on
any other I've tried), and can't find docs on these either. Specifically,
I'm still looking for the symbols for Control, Option, and Shift, and
ideally all the other symbols which existed back in the Classic system font.
Any suggestions on whether these symbols still exist (I *really* hope so)
and if so, where to find them?
Thanks,
-->Steve Bennett
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