

I’d wager that’s how most scientists are used to entering symbols anyway, rather than literal x etc. In LaTeX, where we typically use mathematical symbols the most, we don’t use literal symbols to represent complex equations, but rather special commands, which avoid ambiguity and allow all kinds of fancy, intelligent formatting on the output. The emoji keyboard shortcut icon should now appear at the top right on your task bar.For what its worth, as a scientist, I’d find it very irksome to have to deal with all kinds of special characters for basic operators, and debug programs where colleagues (who typically have much more limited programming experience than the average software developer) used the wrong one somewhere. Now you can close the System Preferences window.

Tick the box next to Show input menu in menu bar. Click System Preferences, then choose Keyboard=>Input Sources.

To pink the emoji keyboard, first click on the Apple logo in the top left corner of your screen. This enables quick point and click access to all of your favorite emoji and symbols. If you don’t like keyboard shortcuts, you can also pin the emoji keyboard on a Mac to your task bar. Add emoji keyboard on a Mac to your task bar The emoji menu is all sorts of fun, whether you need to make a quick post to some social media, or hammer out a complicated calculus proof. Indeed, you can construct entire proofs here, with the option to add implication arrows and even Latin symbols as well. Yes, if you’re an engineering for mathematics student, you can get all of your favorite math symbols for typesetting complicated equations in this same menu. In addition to emoji, you can add fun pictographs, bullets and numbering, and my favorite–math symbols. However, the emoji keyboard shortcut isn’t just for emoji.
