{"id":6808,"date":"2013-01-11T15:25:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T20:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6808"},"modified":"2013-01-11T15:25:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T20:25:17","slug":"text-substitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/text-substitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Text Substitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertypages.com\/clarktech\/?p=5822\">Clark Goble<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.libertypages.com\/clarktech\/?p=5822\"><p>Once you find the character you want you probably don&rsquo;t want to have to bring up the character viewer each time. Click on the Text tab in the pref pane. Apple has a very simple text substitution system akin to TextExpander or Quickeys. It doesn&rsquo;t handle macros but it will replace any string with an other string. It&rsquo;s useful for common misspellings like &ldquo;teh&rdquo; or the like. It also handles displaying unicode fractions so 1\/4 becomes &#188;. What I use if for though are other special characters I want to type.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He puts a semicolon in front of short abbreviations to make them unambiguous. I would use Language &amp; Text substitutions a lot more except that at least half of the times I try to use them they never expand. I end up going into BBEdit and grabbing the same text from its clippings.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark Goble: Once you find the character you want you probably don&rsquo;t want to have to bring up the character viewer each time. Click on the Text tab in the pref pane. Apple has a very simple text substitution system akin to TextExpander or Quickeys. It doesn&rsquo;t handle macros but it will replace any string [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,30],"class_list":["post-6808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6809,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions\/6809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}