Math Symbols

Built into OSX standard keyboard are "special characters." To access these characters use the "option" key to toggle between the special characters and standard letters and numbers. If you want to see what symbols are used for what keys...enter the system preferences menu and go to keyboard. Then select to display the keyboard in the menu. Then, click the menu icon in your top OSX menu...a keyboard will pop-up. press the option key to toggle between the characters.

UuU01 wrote:

Built into OSX standard keyboard are "special characters."

Your posting is well-intentioned, but you need to pay attention to the forum you are in. This one is for the iPad, which does not use OS X, and thus your advice is not relevant.

I have used copying and pasting from an app (such as Evernote) for a long time*, but I have figured out a much easier and more efficient way – though you likely don't need this now.

* That is possible because although iOS devices cannot type some symbols they can still display and work with them. So you can type a list of symbols into Evernote on Mac and sync them to your iOS device.

Set up keyboard shortcuts to replace things you can type with the symbols you need. For example you cannot type ² on an iOS device, but you can set up a "shortcut" with "²" as the phrase (you need to copy the symbol into the text field from the app where you have the symbols) and "^2" as the shortcut.

This screencast demonstrates it : Type scientific and math symbols on your iOS device with ease

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