When writing a question or answer there are some commonly used symbols or typesetting styles that are missing. The two that come to mind are the degree symbol (°) for temperatures and refractometer readings, and subscript (e.g. CO2) which often come up on the site.
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I didn't know this before writing the question - to get the degree symbol, I googled and copy/pasted the symbol from text in the page. There's a much quicker way:
- degree is
°(°) - subscript is
<sub></sub>around the text. E.g.CO<sub>2</sub>makes CO2
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Now we know it's possible, the trick will be remembering to use it!– ASTX813Commented May 3, 2013 at 15:25
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I printed these out and taped them to my monitor. Also, Alt+0176 gives you the ° symbol on a Windows PC, but there is no Alt code for <sub>2</sub>. Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 16:11