I'm using some special characters like mathematical symbols in different programs like Mail or Adobe Illustrator. Of course I can open the Symbols Table, search for the needed symbol and copy&paste it. Is there a way to define a shortcut to insert a specific special character?
How to create shortcut to insert specific special character
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After you choose the character go to the Font Variation section you might need to click on the triangle at its left side to expand this. This shows the fonts that include the glyph.
You can add a line over p, c, s either with the US Extended keyboard layout (base letter then option/alt + a) or the Character Viewer (double click on unicode 0304 after the base letter). Best just copy them from here:
p̄ c̄ s̄
You may need to try different fonts to get them to display properly
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Best Answer
Two possibilities are through creating a modified keyboard layout (which can be done manually, but is made much simpler using a program like Ukulele) or through a shortcut program like TextExpander
I use TextExpander, myself, so that c== is a shortcut on my system for ⌘, o== for ⌥, and several others, in part because I do not want to lose the symbols already mapped to the option (⌥) key combinations on my keyboard.
On the other hand, remapping the ⌥ keys to symbols different than the ones they are original configured for can be helpful and convenient for some people also, which is where Ukulele shines.