I once heard a member of these boards lament that one member could make a typographical symbol that he couldn’t (frankly, I think the one guy just had a better keyboard;).)
Well, anyways I know it is a little crude, but I think I found a way to get whatever [unique] symbol that you want: simply cut and paste from somewhere else on the web!
Here, I found all sorts of neat symbols in one strange [non-English] site:
You should be careful about those. You never know who won’t be able to use them. But if you insist on using those, it’s pretty easy to do. They all have codes. For instance,
€ for €, the Euro symbol.
¢ for ¢, the cent sign.
é for é, an “e” with an acute accent mark.
BTW, in case you don’t know how to cut and paste, it goes like this:
1.) Drag your mouse over the text that you want, until only the text you want to save is highlighted.
2.) Press Ctrl and C simultaneously.
3.) Using your mouse again, place the cursor (that little flashing vertical line) where you want to “paste” the text.
4.) Hit Ctrl + V simultaneously–and magically your text will reappear :D!
This method also works for copying icons (like wordpads, images, etc.) Simply highlight the icon and follow the same proceedure. This last item, though, is only for your personal use. Don’t recopy icons to the SDMB!
The comprehensive official source of these codes can be found on the Character entity references in HTML 4 page. To use the codes listed there, just put an ampersand (&) before and a semicolon ( after. Have fun!
I always thought it might be useful to have a sign so one could tell the sex of a member, but then we’d really have to have 3 of those to be politically correct, right?
My name, if one didn’t relate it to the Hugo novel might be mistaken for either sex, for instance.
I hate to be so melancholic about this (then why don’t I stop? but see, that’s the nature of melancholia), but a superior instruction is to hold down control while pressing C. Many moons ago, when I was training users, some of the funniest sights were of them trying to press the keys simultaneously, sometimes with two hands. And besides, the odds that they will be pressed at identical Planck moments is pretty slim. Okay, the phlegs may tilt their heads and move on. The sanguines may throw a party. And the cholerics may grimace.
after. Have fun!
