Re: Special characters
Re: Special characters
- Subject: Re: Special characters
- From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:06:43 -0600
On Nov 10, 2005, at 5:38 PM, Neil Baylis wrote:
I hope I can explain this adequately..
In my UI, I have some text fields that present statistical values
to the
user. E.g., mean, standard deviation, etc. Next to each field is a
text
label that explains what the field represents. It's just static text,
doesn't change.
How do I put a special symbol in that label? I looked in the special
characters menu, but it only has a limited set. E.g., is there a
way I could
put an x-bar symbol in there to represent the statistical mean?
Usually,
this is represented by a lower case x with a bar above it.
I just looked into the Mathematical Symbols category when viewing All
Characters in the palette and it doesn't have what you're looking for
either.
For the specific case of statistical mean, you can get clever and use
a Latin small-letter x followed by the combining overline character:
U+0078 U+0305
I just tried this out (I added those characters to my .strings file)
and it does show up correctly using the System font (Lucida Grande).
However, I'm not sure you'd be able to use combining marks to form
all what you need. Therefore, I think the best thing to do is to
just create an image (e.g. vector-based PDF that you could scale) and
display that next to your field.
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