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I'm in the process of copyrighting most of my photos. I have a basic template, but would rather use the copyright symbol, i.e. the letter 'C' in a circle.
Macworld advises pressing Opt + G, but this just types up a G. I use one of the older keyboards like this:
iMac (20-inch Early 2008), OS X Mavericks (10.9), HP3310 A-I-O
sapper wrote:
Option plus asdf gives me asdf.
That's totally abnormal, unless perhaps someone went to system preferences/keyboard/keyboard/modifier keys and changed the standard function of the Option key to something else.
Hi Tom, as far as admin goes on my Mac, there is only me. I am in a home environment, and I am God where this unit is concerned (well, perhaps not
so omnipotent as I would like, but you catch my drift?)
Here's what comes up when I open System prefs>keyboard>keyboard modifier:
I see little point in changing the function of those keys, especially the opt and cmd keys, unless you can advise me differently.
By the way, each of those keys is 4 way changeable, i.e. when either choice is clicked, it gives the other 3 options plus 'No action'.
Over to you.
Your settings are correct. But your option key does not work right. It is supposed to let you type a special character on every key, as shown below. It must broken.
Hi Tom, thanks for that. It appears my keyboard may be at fault, but those symbols, for the most part, re mathematic/geometry symbols
for which I have very little use. I have achieved my goal in finding the copyright, which is all I needed as far as this thread goes.
For what it's worth, I will endeavour to seek out a replacement keyboard, but not one of those 'miniature' ones currently available.
Again I ask.
Have you tried the alternate option key on the other side of the keyboard?
Peter
Yes, Peter, I tried the other option key, and no: it made no difference, per my reply to Tom Gewecke.
I will attempt to source a replacement, but I'm not aiming at the new wafer thin ones.
Come to think of it: because I have achieved what I originally began thread for, I don't really see any point in replacing what I have, until it's time to uprate to a new computer.
Thanks all the same, but I think this is the time to end this thread.
I asked because you never said.
If all your modifier keys don't work, then it is something in software.
My guess a 3rd party app, keyboard shortcut or hack that is interfering and capturing the keystrokes.
3/4 of the characters on your keyboard lie under the modifier keys.
Peter
When I type (c) in Apple Mail on iMac, it converts that to the copyright symbol, which is what I want most of the time. What is the "correct" way to prevent that replacement for just one occurence, e.g., when I want to type the IRS designation 501(c)(3)? The only way I've found is to type a space in the middle and then go back and delete the space. Is there a better way?
I've since found out that typing using the ctrl, command and spacebar together shows you a set of emoticons etc and there are about a dozen variations of the copyright symbol.
These are my current favourites. There are hundreds more. Hope that helps.
Kenneth Winiecki wrote:
When I type (c) in Apple Mail on iMac, it converts that to the copyright symbol, which is what I want most of the time. What is the "correct" way to prevent that replacement for just one occurence, e.g., when I want to type the IRS designation 501(c)(3)?
You could go to Edit > Substitutions and uncheck the item for Text Replacement. But then you have to check it again for your desired behavior. Your extra space workaround is probably quicker.
Or you could change the entry in the Text Replacement schedule (system prefs/keyboard/text) so that you need to type something different for copyright.
sapper wrote:
I've since found out that typing using the ctrl, command and spacebar together shows you a set of emoticons etc and there are about a dozen variations of the copyright symbol.
I am puzzled by what you mean by that. All three in your picture look the same, which is what you would expect. Or perhaps you are referring to using different fonts?
To Sapper:
Thank you sooooooo much for this info. It is so cool.
You will find that Apple applications, and those third-party applications that choose to incorporate it, place the Emoji's & Symbols (character viewer) menu item at the bottom of the Edit menu. The keyboard shortcut associated with that menu item is control+command+Spacebar.
If you wanted to discover all of the typographic variations on space, you would type that word in the search field of the character viewer. The center panel would have what appear to be empty locations, but when you click on them, you will see individual types of spaces (e.g. FOUR-PER-EM-SPACE). Double-clicking on any center panel character will insert it into your document at the insertion beam. This includes With characters in the System Preferences : Keyboard : Text panel.
Option (Alt) + 1 = ©
I tried Peter's trick and went through pretty much the whole keyboard trying Option + different letters before I found it. 🙂
Pedro
pedrohe wrote:
Option (Alt) + 1 = ©
What language keyboard layout are you using?
For US it is always option/alt + g. For Spanish ISO, it is option/alt + c.
How to type the copyright symbol on Mac pro keyboard
