Re: How To Put Degree Symbol
Latrisha Adan
The word degree is equivalent to Latin gradus which, since the medieval period, could refer to any stage in a graded system of ranks or steps. The number of the rank in question was indicated by ordinal numbers, in abbreviation with the ordinal indicator (a superscript o).
Use of "degree" specifically for the degrees of arc, used in conjunction with Arabic numerals, became common in the 16th century, but this was initially without the use of an ordinal marker or degree symbol: instead, various abbreviation of gradus (e.g., Gra., Gr., gr., G.).[1] The modern notation appears in print in the 1570s, with a borderline example by Jacques Pelletier du Mans in 1569, and was popularized by, among others, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, but didn't become universal.
In the case of degrees of temperature, three scientific and engineering standards bodies (the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, the International Organization for Standardization and the U.S. Government Printing Office) prescribe printing temperatures with a space between the number and the degree symbol, e.g. 10 C.[4][5] However, in many works with professional typesetting, including scientific works published by the University of Chicago Press or Oxford University Press, the degree symbol is printed with no spaces between the number, the symbol, and the Latin letters "C" or "F" representing Celsius or Fahrenheit, respectively, e.g. 10C.[6][7] This is also the practice of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which operates the National Center for Atmospheric Research.[8] Both ASTM International and NIST, the official US entities related to the standardization of the use of units, require a space between the numerical value and the unit designator,[9] except when the degree symbol alone is used to denote an angular value.
Use of the degree symbol to refer to temperatures measured in kelvins (symbol: K) was abolished in 1967 by the 13th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM). Therefore, the triple point of water, for instance, is written simply as 273.16 K. The name of the SI unit of temperature is now "kelvin", in lower case, and no longer "degrees Kelvin".
Some computer keyboard layouts, such as the QWERTY layout as used in Italy, the QWERTZ layout as used in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and the AZERTY layout as used in France and Belgium, have the degree symbol available directly on a key. But the common keyboard layouts in English-speaking countries do not include the degree sign, which then has to be input some other way. The method of inputting depends on the operating system being used.
In Microsoft Office and similar programs, there is often also an Insert menu with an Insert Symbol or Symbol command that brings up a graphical palette of symbols to insert, including the degree symbol. As with the CharMap app, the table is arranged in Unicode order. Alternatively, the alt code technique may be used, as described above.
In LaTeX, the packages gensymb and textcomp provide the commands \degree and \textdegree, respectively. In the absence of these packages one can write the degree symbol as ^\circ in math mode. In other words, it is written as the empty circle glyph circ as a superscript.
Degree symbol is . Sometimes students or those who deal with mathematics, physics or various kinds of calculations may need to type a degree sign,but we do not have one directly on our keyboard. Degree symbol can be used in case if we're dealing with angles,or when we need to operate with temperature and use Celsius degree. It is also a common coordinate degree sign.Actually, there are a few ways to make a degree symbol.You can either copy paste, or use the degree code in your document. See some examples below:
Press and hold the ALT keyand type 0176on the numeric keypad of your keyboard. Make sure the NumLock is on and type 0176 with the leading zero.If there is no numeric keypad, press and hold the Fn before typing the 0176 numbers of degree symbol.
The degree symbol () can be typed by holding Alt while typing 0176 on the numeric keypad. (You have to use the numeric keypad and not the numbers across the top. Alt+0248 creates the small letter o with a stroke throught it, thusly: .
Look up at top where is says font, the character map is not same for all fonts. your pic shows a weird font that folks most probably does not use? IMHO that is the reason some folks have issues when they try to input geo location data.
Sorry we have to disagree I did not say it changes for all. It has been well known for years the key strokes can change and in fact I hand to recently change. I had been tinkering with the fonts I had IE set and had trouble entering degree symbol correctly for geo location.
I have come into a problem when trying to use the degree symbol with tags. I have seen that the decimal representation for degree sign is 176. But when I use unichr(176), Instead of getting the actual degree symbol, I get this weird looking A in front of the degree symbol as shown, . Is there a way to just get the degree sign itself?
Just tried using u'' and it didn't work in my scenario. I'm currently using 8.1.36 and am trying to get the degree symobol to show properly in a flex repeater. It shows up correctly in a normal flex view on a label text but gets when being repeated.
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@ryan.white Can you use html in a script transform or an exprssion binding for perspective? Could you provide an exmaple of how? I tried within the text label and the binding to get it to show to no avail.
A while ago I posted an answer to the MathJax tutorial meta question about the right way to write a degree symbol. The latest edit (with which I'm not really happy) discusses, among other things, the absence of a \degree symbol in MathJax. But as far as I understand the docs, it should be fairly easy to provide a macro of that name for the whole site, with whatever implementation you consider most appropriate. Benefits:
Currently suggested implementations include , ^\circ and ^\texto. Semantically I prefer the first, but I get the impression that I'm in a minority here, and with this definition my main concern about doing the semantically right thing in the post itself would still be addressed.
I have an inspection form set up for restaurant/health inspectors. Often times during an inspection they need to enter temperatures of food and like to use the degree symbol. They're running this form on a convertible tablet pc, so a normal keyboard is not available to them in tablet mode and when in laptop mode using the combination of ALT+0176 that's still a PITA because the keyboard doesn't have full number pad and the people using this form aren't the most computer literate people out there to be able to activate the Function keys to endable number pad keys and then enter an ASCII code many times during an inspection.
1.) A command button that inserts the symbol, but I'm afraid clicking the button would lose focus of the destination field and there'd need to be a lot of scripting to remember which field was the last one they were in to insert it in the correct one.
I ended up using a simple replace as I was mentining in my previous post so that if the inspectors types "blah blah blah at 51 deg blah blah blah" and then exits the field, FormCalc will replace the ' deg' with 'F' so that the text now reads "blah blah blah 51F blah blah blag".
Thanks for the reply Robert. That's good to know when it comes down to programming the actual generation of the symbol, but what I am asking is more about how the user would enter it. This form has many long text fields which hold more words than just the temperature. For example a use could enter into a field: "White fish was a 51F. Corrected by throwing it away."
Gotcha. As mentioned in my OP, we're aware of simply entering ALT+0167, however for computer illterare people who struggle with the concept of copy and paste, that's not really an option. I'm looking more for something easier for them to quickly insert the symbol.
They are on laptops w/ a normal English keyboard, but they don't have full number pad. The num pad is shared on the keyboard with normal letter keys. To do it they've first have to FUNCTION+NumPad to enable it the number pad. Then ALT+0167 to insert the character. Then they have to remember to diasable the number pad again with FUNCTION+NumPad so they can finish their typing. If they need to insert the character, say 5 different times during an inspection, that becomes increasingly burdensome. That's way to many keystrokes in this setup and tech overload for the end users. They'll throw the computer out the window if I make them do this.
1.) That's running off of an 'On Exit' even which inserts the F at the end of the text. In some cases that would work, but it others it would not work, like in this text field example of real data: "White fish was a 51F. *Corrected* Witnessed manager throw away fish."
I thought I tried $ before and it didn't work. Maybe I typed a wrong character. Walt sent what he has in his .hol file and I tried it again and this time it worked. He also said there is a document that PTC has listing all the symbols. Here they are. TPI 104111.
Hi all i tried using the technique like pressing shift with numlock and "0186" even with alt its not working could some one be kind enough to give me an idea as how to insert degree celsius symbol. It would be a great help. Thanks in advance.
Above that, if you're using a it's a no-mans-land where any device can come up with whatever they want: smileys, graphics blocks, arrows, space invaders, copyright, degrees, fractions, whatever. Your PC's idea of what to do with these characters is different from the old Commodore computers, and different from Tandy computers, etc.
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