How can I use Greek symbols in a Pages text? Greek symbols are not included in the special character collection.
I need to import for example a sigma from Word or Adobe illustrator and then Pages can recognise it. I can not find it from within Pages.
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Also own a MacBook Pro
Actually sigma is in the standard character set:
option w = ∑
Peter
Special character palette from the edit menu does have sigmas under European ... > Greek ...
You can do a search at the bottom of the Special Character palette. Double click on the greek capital letter sigma. You will get a lot of sigmas.
As fruhulda has pointed out it is in:
Menu > Edit > Special Characters… > View: Code Tables > 00000370 Greek and Coptic
The lower case sigma is 03C0 3 = σ
Double click on it to insert it at the cursor point in your document.
Peter
PeterBreis0807 wrote:
Menu > Edit > Special Characters… > View: Code Tables > 00000370 Greek and Coptic
Unfortunately the View menu departed starting with 10.7. Now you have to go to the gear wheel at the top left and choose Customize and then check the box for Unicode or Greek
PeterBreis0807 wrote:
I presume Tom, that was because Apple thought the previous method was too self evident? 🙂
Exactly! They have a special team of folks tasked with making things harder to figure out...
I feel sorry for them, judging on the results they must be working day and night thinking up new places to hide stuff.
Eventually you won't be able to access anything on a Mac you'll have to have a Windows PC and email everything to yourself just like iOS.
Peter
I presume Tom, that was because Apple thought the previous method was too self evident? 🙂
Peter
How can I use Greek symbols in a text in Pages? Greek symbols are not in the special character list.
