Is there a standard way to typeset the special symbols of the Apple Mac keyboard? That is, the curly rectangle ⌘ and the others?
If there is none, what would you suggest as workarounds?
Symbols – How to Typeset Special Apple Mac Keyboard Symbols
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For the second question: I haven't checked out the alternatives, but nomencl is what I've had experience with for making a list of symbols.
\newcommand{\Vs}[1]{\FZ{V_{\mathrm{s}#1}}}
\makenomenclature
somewhere in the preamble, plus something like
In some subspace $\Vs{1}$, something happens.\nomenclature{$\Vs{1}$}{A special subspace}
in the main body.
Use an editor or other tool (latexmk, make, etc.) that will automatically run the makeindex command for you, too. On TeXnicCenter with TeX Live 2010, we made a copy of the LaTeX => PDF build profile called LaTeX => PDF (Nomenclature) that runs makeindex each time, and uses the arguments "%tm".nlo -s nomencl.ist -o "%tm".nls. We don't normally use makeindex for anything but nomenclatures, though.
A quick, simple and (very) dirty way.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter*{List of Symbols}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
$+$ & Addition Operator\\
$-$ & Subtraction Operator\\
$\times$ & Multiplication Operator\\
$\sqrt{x}$ & Square Root of $x$\\
$\odot$ & Foo Bar\\
$\Leftrightarrow$ & Bar Foo
\end{tabular}
\chapter{Check chapter}
\lipsum[1]
\chapter{Check chapter}
\section{Check section}
\end{document}
Best Answer
There is the Apple Keys package available here: Apple Keys.
It has character sized images for the following symbols: