[TomRudy]

I've forgotten what font to use to print the conventional symbols for: control, option, command, and shift. Please refresh my memory or suggest a workaround. Many thanks.
Tom Rudy

[sereluna]

Maybe Lucida Grande.

[TomRudy]

Thanks for the try sereluna, but Keyboard Viewer does not show the desired symbols. Of course the actual control (modifier) keys of all fonts are marked with the symbols I'd like to print, but I can't print them. What bugs me is that many years ago I read how to do that. Every Mac instruction book uses the symbols, so they must be available somewhere.

[sereluna]

OS X uses Lucida Grande as its system font, doesn't it, so they must be available. Here are the Unicode points of some of them:
U2318
U232b
U21e7
U2325
U238b
U2324
This one's odd:
U+2387
I found those by looking in the character palette, which you can turn on in System Preferences --> International. The easiest way to type them is through the Unicode Hex Input keyboard layout (again see the International prefpane).
Request for Leopard: make the character palette searchable, and give the characters their names by use, not just descriptions. I'm not sure that is the shift character, for example -- it just looks like it. To find out, I'd probably have to google its code point or enlarge it and study its shape -- a big pain.

[albloom]

My PopChar X shows those Apple characters in
Lucida Grande CY under "Miscellaneous Technical."
The unicodes given are correct, but I'm lazy. I
just select the thingie I want from PopChar, and
it is automagically inserted in my document.

[TomRudy]

Many thanks, Allan. Could you help me find a way to download or otherwise obtain Lucida Grande CY? I find Lucida Grande but not Lucida Grande CY in my available fonts and am rather naive about fonts in general.
Tom Rudy

[albloom]

That's all I have, too. Dunno why PopChar put the
CY after the name. I gotta stop slavishly copying
what I see. Bad study habits.

[Nobody]

I had forgotten all about it until I saw your post... long ago, I had used these codes and copied the characters to a simple text file (perhaps Word) and from there simply copy them to wherever needed... let's see if still works:

Yep, it does... saves the trouble of remembering unicodes or going through Poptarts etc. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[azhie]

The CY after Lucida Grande denotes Cyrillic (for Russian and some other Slavic languages). If you've purged foreign languages when setting up your initial settings, you may have eliminated the CY fonts that come with the Mac.