On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 04:40:11PM -0800, Dave Stevens wrote: > I need to use my notebook keyboard to insert a divide symbol, the > kind with two dots and a horizontal line, it's ascii character 43 > decimal. I installed gedit-plugins and character table is enabled in > preferences but I don't see anywhere in the gedit screen to get into > the table to select characters. Ideas? > > Dave in Unicode, the math division symbol is code point 00F7 (decimal 247). To enter that into a document using gedit, hold depress CTRL-Shift-U, let go of those keys and type "00f7", and once you hit, say, a space character your divide sign will appear, as if by magic. You can find the appropriate Unicode charts at: http://unicode.org/charts. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996 ----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge ----------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org