Greek Letters, Symbols for College Fraternities and Sororites

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Greek Letters, Symbols for College Fraternities and Sororites

Does anyone know how to access a palette of characters that has Greek letters or symbols for Greek Fraternities and Sororities? I am working on a project and I need to have their letters on the screen.

Thanks!

Examples:
Delta looks like a triangle
Omega looks like a horseshoe
Phi looks like a O with a line in the middle of it.

1.8 G5 PowerMac & 2.33 Dual Core Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 4gigs of RAM, 250g &120g HD's, Final Cut Pro Studio

Posted on May 14, 2009 5:45 PM

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Answer 1

Wherrito

Level 2

185 points

May 14, 2009 6:12 PM in response to DVX100Shooter

Well, I goofed around with this a bit, but couldn't really access the Greek character set in FCP.

But, here's a roundabout way:
Open Text Editor
Option CommandT
European Scripts>Greek

Drag the character onto your document and make the font size as big as you need it.
Copy it, go to FCP and paste into the text field in the viewer.

Kinda clunky, but it's all I got.

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Answer 2

Nick Holmes

Level 7

30,018 points

May 15, 2009 6:37 AM in response to Wherrito

Here's another way.

Go to System Preferences > International > Input Menu.
Activate the checkboxes for Character Palette and Keyboard Viewer.
Close System Preferences. You will notice that a flag has appeared in your menu bar.

Click the flag and choose Character Palette. Click on Greek in the left column.
In FCP, activate the text input field by clicking in it once.
Double clicking the symbols in the Character Palette will insert them in the text input field.

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Answer 3

May 14, 2009 5:59 PM in response to DVX100Shooter

Open Texedit, choose Edit > Special Characters > European Scripts > Greek

Then pick your characters and paste tham into FCP.

Like this:
ΔΩϕ

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