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- From: heilmayr@beirut.berkeley.edu (Stephan Heilmayr)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Command Key Font Symbol
- Date: 3 Sep 1992 01:42:20 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Logic Group
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- References: <1992Aug19.011333.29975@u.washington.edu> <16sfeeINNcts@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <16sfeeINNcts@agate.berkeley.edu>, dana@are.Berkeley.EDU (Dana E. Keil) writes:
- |> In article <1992Aug19.011333.29975@u.washington.edu> burrows@milton.u.washington.edu (William Burrows) writes:
- |> >I am writing some documentation and would like to include the
- |> >symbol for the command key in the documentation. However, I donUt
- |> >seem to be able to find it in any font sets. Can anyone help?
- |> >
- |> I believe the Chicago font is the only common font that has it; it
- |> is ASCII 17 which should be produced by control-Q (note this is not
- |> the command key but the control key). Also try control R, S and T
- |> in Chicago for some other characters not found in other fonts.
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- There's also a postscript font called Encyclofont (I believe it was made
- by the people who wrote _Encyclopedia Macintosh_) floating around (i.e. it's
- shareware, freeware, or pd) that has symbols for command, shift, option, etc.
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