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Typography Mappings

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Sticky designates modes which can remain enabled for typing multiple characters in that mode. To make a mode sticky, hit the initiating keystroke twice. The mode will be exited when you type a character not mapped in that mode.

T designates the terminator for the current mode. The terminator is the fallback character for the keystroke that initiates a mode. It is the character that will be output if you type any key not mapped in that mode. It is often useful to type a mode’s initiator stroke, followed by Escape, to output the terminator — but in some modes (e.g. Arrows, where there are no alphabetical keys mapped) you can just continue typing, and the terminator will be output followed by your subsequent keystrokes mapped in the default mode.

A caps lock (⇪) designates a sequence in which all keystrokes should be shifted or capslocked. However, in practice most will allow you to get by shifting only the first stroke in the sequence.

Accents & Diacritics Number Pad

Accents and diacritics are added to Latin letters using the number pad. All those accented letterforms which exist as precomposed characters the Unicode standard are mapped using the appropriate single glyph; the remainder are mapped using combining marks. Each stroke is terminated by the appropriate combining mark, which allows you to add multiple accents and diacritics to a single letter. (This means you can add any mark, or series of marks, to any Latin alphabetic character on the keyboard, whether or not that combination of marks is actually used on that letter in any written language.)

Order of composition depends on whether you’d like multiple diacritics. For multiple diacritics, type the letter first, followed by the combining diacritics. For a single diacritic, you can enter the letter and diacritic in either order.

	⌥		⇧⌥
Num0	◌̧	Cedilla	◌̨	Ogonek
Num1	◌́	Acute accent	◌̋	Double acute accent
Num2	◌̀	Grave accent	◌̏	Double grave accent
Num3	◌̂	Circumflex	◌̌	Caron
Num4	◌̃	Tilde	◌̉	Hoi
Num5	◌̈	Diæresis	◌̵	Bar
Num6	◌̊	Ring	◌̊	Ring
Num7	◌̄	Macron	◌̱	Underbar
Num8	◌̆	Breve	◌̑	Arch
Num9	◌̓	Comma	◌̦	Undercomma
Num.	◌̇	Dot	◌̣	Underdot

Greek ⌥G Sticky

Upper and lowercase Greek letterforms are mapped as mnemonically as possible, although not being a scholar of the greek script, I’m not sure how accurate the pairings are between the Greek keys and their Latin “equivalents”. Feel free to send me feedback about this.

Note that I do intend to combine the diacritical feature with the Greek mode for polytonic Greek input in a future revision.

A	αT	⇧A	Α	I	ι	⇧I	Ι	R	ρ	⇧R	Ρ
B	β	⇧B	Β	K	κ	⇧K	K	S	σ	⇧S	Σ
C	γ	⇧C	Γ	L	λ	⇧L	Λ	T	τ	⇧T	Τ
D	δ	⇧D	Δ	M	μ	⇧M	Μ	U	υ	⇧U	Υ
E	ε	⇧E	Ε	N	ν	⇧N	Ν	W	φ	⇧W	Φ
F	θ	⇧F	Θ	O	ο	⇧O	Ο	X	χ	⇧X	Χ
G	ξ	⇧G	Ξ	P	π	⇧P	Π	Y	ψ	⇧Y	Ψ
H	η	⇧H	Η	Q	ω	⇧Q	Ω	Z	ζ	⇧Z	Ζ

Spaces & Joiners ⌥Spc

Spc		Non-breaking spaceT	H		Hair space
⌥Spc		Narrow non-breaking space	N		En space
3		Three-to-em space	⌥N		En quad
4		Four-to-em space	M		Em space
6		Six-to-em space	⌥M		Em quad
0		Zero width space	L	‎	Left-to-right mark
⌥0	‍	Zero width joiner	⌥L	‪	Left-to-right embedding
⇧⌥0	‌	Zero width non-joiner	⇧⌥L	‭	Left-to-right override
T		Thin space	R	‏	Right-to-left mark
P		Punctuation space	⌥R	‫	Right-to-left embedding
F		Figure space	⇧⌥R	‮	Right-to-left override

Dashes ⌥-

-	‑	Non-breaking hyphen
F	‒	Figure dash
B	―	Horizontal bar
N	–	En dashT
M	—	Em dash

Symbols & Marks ⌥Y / ⌥2 (@)

C	©	Copyright signT	D	°	Degree sign
R	®	Registered trademark sign	S	§	Section sign
⌥P	℗	Sound recording copyright sign	T	†	Dagger
T M	™	Trademark	⇧T	‡	Double dagger
S M	℠	Service mark	P	¶	Pilcrow
C L	℄	Center line	⇧P	⁋	Reversed pilcrow
P L	⅊	Property line	\	‖	Double bar
N O	№	Numero sign	⇧\	¦	Broken bar
1	¡	Inverted exclamation point	/	¿	Inverted question mark
⇧1	‼	Double exclamation point	⇧/	⁉	Exclamation question mark
⇧/	⁇	Double question mark	⇧1	⁈	Question exclamation mark

Roman Numerals ⌥R / ⌥3 (#)

I	ⅰT	⇪ I	Ⅰ	I X	ⅸ	⇪ I X	Ⅸ
I I	ⅱ	⇪ I I	Ⅱ	X	ⅹ	⇪ X	Ⅹ
I I I	ⅲ	⇪ I I I	Ⅲ	X I	ⅺ	⇪ X I	Ⅺ
I V	ⅳ	⇪ I V	Ⅳ	X I I	ⅻ	⇪ X I I	Ⅻ
V	ⅴ	⇪ V	Ⅴ	L	ⅼ	⇪ L	Ⅼ
V I	ⅵ	⇪ V I	Ⅵ	C	ⅽ	⇪ C	Ⅽ
V I I	ⅶ	⇪ V I I	Ⅶ	D	ⅾ	⇪ D	Ⅾ
V I I I	ⅷ	⇪ V I I I	Ⅷ

Currency ⌥C / ⌥4 ($)

C	¢	U.S. cent signT	C / /	₡	Colon sign
E	€	Euro sign	C R	₢	Cruzeiro sign
P	£	British pound	M /	₥	Mill sign
Y	¥	Yen sign	N - -	₦	Naira sign
F R	₣	French Franc sign	P T S	₧	Peseta sign
L	₤	Italian Lira	⇧D	₪	New Sheqel sign
C E	₠	Euro-currency sign	D	₫	Dong sign
R S	₨	Rupee sign	K	₭	Kip sign
W - -	₩	Won sign	T / /	₮	Tugrik sign
⌥L	₰	German penny sign	D P	₯	Drachma sign
P - -	₱	Peso sign	O	¤	Currency symbol

Fractions ⌥F / ⌥5 (%)

Those vulgar fractions which are available in the Unicode standard are mapped accordingly; all other key combinations are mapped to superscript mode, followed by subscript mode after a forward slash (/) is pressed.

/	⁄ T	2 / 3	⅔
1 /	⅟	2 / 5	⅖
1 / 2	½	3 / 4	¾
1 / 3	⅓	3 / 5	⅗
1 / 4	¼	4 / 5	⅘
1 / 5	⅕	5 / 6	⅚
1 / 6	⅙	5 / 8	⅝
1 / 8	⅛	7 / 8	⅞

Superscripts & Subscripts ⌥U and ⇧⌥U / ⌥6 and ⇧⌥6 (^) Sticky

	⌥U	⇧⌥U		⌥U	⇧⌥U
1	¹	₁T	-	⁻	₋
2	²T	₂	=	⁼	₌
3	³	₃	⇧=	⁺	₊
4	⁴	₄	⇧9	⁽	₍
5	⁵	₅	⇧0	⁾	₎
6	⁶	₆	A	ª
7	⁷	₇	I	ⁱ
8	⁸	₈	O	º
9	⁹	₉	N	ⁿ
0	⁰	₀

Ligatures & Letterforms ⌥L / ⌥7 (&)

⌥S S	ß	EszettT	I J	ĳ	Lowercase ligature IJ
F F	ﬀ	Lowercase ligature FF	⇪ I J	Ĳ	Uppercase ligature IJ
F I	ﬁ	Lowercase ligature FI	L J	ǉ	Lowercase ligature LJ
F F I	ﬃ	Lowercase ligature FFI	⇪ L J	Ǉ	Uppercase ligature LJ
F L	ﬂ	Lowercase ligature FL	N J	ǌ	Lowercase ligature NJ
F F L	ﬄ	Lowercase ligature FFL	⇪ N J	Ǌ	Uppercase ligature NJ
A E	æ	Lowercase æsc	A / C	℀	Account of
⇪ A E	Æ	Uppercase æsc	A / S	℁	Addressed to the subject
S T	ﬆ	Lowercase ligature ST	C / O	℅	Care of
O E	œ	Lowercase ethel	C / U	℆	Cada una
⇪ O E	Œ	Uppercase ethel	R X	℞	Prescription take

Dots & Bullets ⌥O / ⌥8 (*)

B	•	BulletT	H	‧	Hyphenation point
T	‣	Triangular bullet	.	․	One-dot leader
-	⁃	Hyphen bullet	. .	‥	Two-dot leader
M	·	Middle dot	. . .	…	Horizontal ellipsis

Quotes ⌥'

[	‘	Left single quotation mark
]	’	Right single quotation markT
⌥[	‛	Single high-reversed-9 quotation mark
⌥]	‚	Single low-9 quotation mark
⇧[	“	Left double quotation mark
⇧]	”	Right double quotation mark
⇧⌥[	‟	Double high-reversed-9 quotation mark
⇧⌥]	„	Double low-9 quotation mark
,	‹	Single left-pointing angle quotation mark
.	›	Single right-pointing angle quotation mark
⇧,	«	Double left-pointing angle quotation mark
⇧.	»	Double right-pointing angle quotation mark

Arrows ⌥A

Num8	↑	⇧Num8	⇑	Num8 Num8	⇈
Num2	↓	⇧Num2	⇓	Num2 Num2	⇊
Num4	←	⇧Num4	⇐	Num4 Num4	⇇
Num6	→T	⇧Num6	⇒	Num6 Num6	⇉
Num7	↖	⇧Num7	⇖
Num9	↗	⇧Num9	⇗
Num3	↘	⇧Num3	⇘
Num1	↙	⇧Num1	⇙
Num4 Num6*	↔	⇪ Num4 Num6*	⇔	Num4 ⌥Num6*	⇆
Num8 Num2*	↕	⇪ Num8 Num2*	⇕
Num5	↻	⌥Num5	↺
⌥Num8	↿	⇧⌥Num8	↾
⌥Num2	⇃	⇧⌥Num2	⇂
⌥Num4	↼	⇧⌥Num4	↽
⌥Num6	⇀	⇧⌥Num6	⇁
⌥Num4 Num6	⇋	⌥Num6 Num4	⇌
Num8 Num4	↰	Num8 Num6	↱
Num2 Num4	↲	Num2 Num6	↳
* Reversible

Mac OS Keyboard Glyphs ⌥K Sticky

M	⌘	Command keyT	H	?⃝	Help
O	⌥	Option key	D	⌦	Delete
L	⌃	Control key	Num7	↖	Home
S	⇧	Shift key	Num1	↘	End
C	⇪	Caps lock key	Num9	⇞	Page up
B	⌫	Backspace	Num3	⇟	Page down
T	⇥	Tab	Num8	⇡	Up arrow
⇧T	⇤	Reverse tab	Num2	⇣	Down arrow
R	↩	Return	Num4	⇠	Left arrow
E	⎋	Escape	Num6	⇢	Right arrow
A		Apple logo	X	⌧	Clear
P	⌽	Power	N	⌤	Enter
J	⏏	Eject

Math ⌥M / ⌥=

X	×	Multiplication sign	2	√	Square root
V	÷	Division sign	3	∛	Cube root
-	−	Minus sign	4	∜	Fourth root
=	≈	Almost equal to	D	∂	Partial differential
⇧=	±	Plus or minus	⇧D	∆	Increment
⌥=	≠	Not equal toT	⇧⌥D	∇	Nabla
B	∙	Bullet operator	⇧E	∑	N-ary summation
.	⋅	Dot operator	F	ƒ	Latin small letter F with hook
⇧,	≤	Less than or equal to	S	∫	Integral
⇧.	≥	Greater than or equal to	S S	∬	Double integral
⇧⌥,	≪	Much less than	S S S	∭	Triple integral
⇧⌥.	≫	Much greater than	8	∞	Infinity
/	⁄	Virgule	⇧8	∝	Proportional to
'	′	Prime	;	∶	Ratio
' '	″	Double prime	⇧;	∷	Proportion
' ' '	‴	Triple prime	,	∴	Therefore
' ' ' '	⁗	Quadruple prime	⌥,	⋯	Midline horizontal ellipsis
U	∪	Union	L	∠	Angle
I	∩	Intersection	⇧L	∟	Right angle
A	∧	Logical AND	⌥L	∡	Measured angle
O	∨	Logical OR	⇧⌥L	∢	Spherical angle
N	¬	Logical NOT	\	∥	Parallel to
			⇧\	∦	Not parallel to

Non-Modal and Shortcut Mappings

These mappings are accessible without entering into any of the modes above, from the keyboard’s default state. Most are shortcuts for frequently-used items.

⌥S	ſ	Long S
⇧⌥S	ß	Eszett
⌥I	ı	Dotless lowercase I
⇧⌥I	İ	Dotted capital I
⌥;	…	Horizontal ellipsis
⇧⌥-	—	Em dash
⌥[	‘	Left single quotation mark
⌥]	’	Right single quotation mark
⇧⌥[	“	Left double quotation mark
⇧⌥]	”	Right double quotation mark
⌥,	‹	Single left-pointing angle quotation mark
⌥.	›	Single right-pointing angle quotation mark
⇧⌥,	«	Double left-pointing angle quotation mark
⇧⌥.	»	Double right-pointing angle quotation mark
⌥Num=	≠	Not equal to
⇧⌥Num=	≈	Almost equal to
⌥Num/	÷	Division sign
⇧⌥Num/	⁄	Virgule
⌥Num*	×	Multiplication sign
⇧⌥Num*	⋅	Dot operator
⌥Num-	−	Minus sign
⌥Num+	±	Plus or minus
⌥1	¡	Inverted exclamation point
⌥/	¿	Inverted question mark
⇧⌥1 ⇧1	‼	Double exclamation point
⇧⌥1 ⇧/	⁉	Exclamation question mark
⇧⌥/ ⇧/	⁇	Double question mark
⇧⌥/ ⇧1	⁈	Question exclamation mark

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One Response to “Typography Mappings”

fibonacci Says:
February 11th, 2007 at 2:12 am
In fact, it all renders correctly in Camino except for the accents and diacritics that are unassociated with a character.