Is there an easy way to import symbols into text?

Scrivener Scrivener for macOS
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I’m not too good at importing symbols through shortcuts into the scrivener text.
Is there an easier way of doing? I remember in OS 9 there was a simple program included from which one could copy and paste, but I did not find it for OSX? Many thanks for any suggestions.

Best regards,

Iwert

2

… in the international preferences pane.

Iwert.

3

Are you thinking of Key Caps? The modern equivalent seems to be the Special Characters palette, which is under the Edit menu.

If you find yourself using a lot of special characters, and can never remember the shortcuts (like, um, me) then you may want to check out PopCharX, the OSX version of a venerable old plug-in that I’ve used for more than 10 years:
macility.com/products/popcharx/

4

There’s also a handy widget for remembering the key combos for symbols:

http://www.tacowidgets.com/widgets/characterpal/

CharacterPal from Taco Widgets.

5

You also have Keyboard Viewer, which you can set to appear under the International (flag) menu if you have that set, along with “Show Character Palette”.
Mark

6

Ah, I thought I remembered seeing something like that, but I don’t have the international palette in my menu bar, so didn’t know where to look to check if it was still there.

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Is Edit > Special characters what you’re looking for?

Bob

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Eh? Edit -> Special Characters was what I suggested the OP used, back up in post 3.

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It’s easy enough to get; just go to System Preferences -> International -> Input Menu and check the “Show input menu in menu bar” near the bottom of the prefs page. I have it up there because I don’t use the accents and special characters nearly enough to memorize them.

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I know how to get the palette in my menubar; I just forgot that the key caps palette is part of it.