Comments on words / myth / ampers & virgule: A typographer's Twitter tip

There's also ts - ʦ which is present in at lea...

2009-11-16T15:08:25.413-05:00

There's also ts - ʦ which is present in at least some fonts (Arial and Times New Roman among them.)

Experimenting with these, I see that at least ʦ and № work fine with the Twitter web interface, but don't show up at all in TweetDeck. If you paste them into TweetDeck, it just ignores them completely, so it's not merely a font issue. I wish I could say that's surprising.

There's always the old standby ligatures: ae ...

2009-11-16T09:20:58.123-05:00

There's always the old standby ligatures:

ae - æ - Alt+0230
oe - œ - Alt+0156
fi - ﬁ
fl - ﬂ

And if you want to get really silly, there's the "numero" sign:

No - №

But you should probably only use that one when it's a single word, as some fonts will underline and superscript the o.

"option" and "alt" are the sam...

2009-11-15T09:39:03.476-05:00

"option" and "alt" are the same key on Macs, "opt" is the usual way to refer to it. All indicated keys are held down simultaneously to produce the character..

ellipsis … = opt ;
em dash — = opt shift -
en dash – = opt -
bullet • = opt 8
pilcrow ¶ = opt 7

so the same key is used for all dashlike characters:

- = (hyphen)
- + opt = – (en dash)
- + opt + shift = — (em dash)