One last set of TextExpander symbols
June 29, 2011 at 8:30 AM by Dr. Drang
As a followup to this post and this one, here’s my last set of simple TextExpander snippets for inserting special characters.
| To insert | Type |
|---|---|
| ☒ | ;xbox |
| ☑ | ;chbox |
| ☐ | ;box |
| ✓ | ;check |
| ♫ | ;notes |
| ☼ | ;sun |
| ☁ | ;cloud |
| ☂ | ;rain |
| ♥ | ;heart |
| ♠ | ;spade |
| ♣ | ;club |
| ♦ | ;diamond |
| ♺ | ;recycle |
| ☃ | ;snow |
| ★ | ;star |
As you might expect, I don’t use these nearly as much as the fractions or keyboard symbols, but they come in handy when tweeting. It’s annoying that the ballot box character (☐) is often rendered larger than either the X’d ballot box (☒) or the checked ballot box (☑). Makes it hard to use them as way of showing votes.
If you don’t like my use of the semicolon to prefix every abbreviation, you can change it to whatever you like using the teprefix script, which is in this GitHub repository.
Update 6/29/11
You’re not crazy; I forgot to add a link to the library. Try this.
