[Solved] Where is Rx Symbol?

[myweb]

Hello! Does Open Office contain the symbol Rx that doctors use? If so how do I access it?
Thanks much and God Bless!

[RoryOF]

This is Unicode symbol U+211E; whether it is present or not depends on the fonts installed, not on OpenOffice. It is present in some fonts, not in others. A quick check across a range of fonts suggests it is often not present.

[Zizi64]

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode ... upport.htm

The DejaVu font family is present in the installer pack of the LibreOffice (and will installed automatically, when you install the LO).

[RoryOF]

I was in error: the symbol may not show up in /Insert /Special character (my earlier posting was based on this), but if one uses
the appropriate shortcut to insert a Unicode character then it will appear, if it is included in the font. On a linux system, in OO Writer I type Ctrl Shift u 211e and on pressing Enter the character appears.

[acknak]

I was in error: the symbol may not show up in /Insert /Special character (my earlier posting was based on this), but if one uses
the appropriate shortcut to insert a Unicode character then it will appear, ...

This is a problem with the design of OO's special character dialog: it works according to the old model, where a character was associated with a particular font, so it requires you to select a font, and it inserts both the character and the font information in the document.

With the standard, Unicode model, all that's needed is the character. OO will display the character in the current font if possible; if the character is not available in the current font, OO will search for a font that does provide it. If NO font on the system provides it, then you get a missing glyph box in its place.

[John_Ha]

When you find a font with the Rx symbol, you can use AutoCorrect to type Rx easily. Go Tools > AutoCorrect Options > Replace. Type %%R (or something similarly memorable but unlikely to be used normally) in Replace and paste the Rx symbol into With. Every time you type %%R it will automagically get changed to Rx.

Edit: For the above to work you need to be typing in a font which contains the Rx character. If you want to use a different font for your typing then record trivial macro where you set the font to one which contains the Rx character and type it. You now reset the font back to the usual font. Save the macro and assign an icon to the macro and put it on a toolbar. Now, whenever you want Rx just click the icon. See [Tutorial] How to record a macro (and Regular Expressions)

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[John_Ha]

Zizi64's link says that Rx (presumably Px as it means Prescription take) is only available in the following fonts:

Edit: I stand corrected - it is an abbreviation for recipe. ℞ is a symbol meaning "prescription". It is sometimes transliterated as "Rx" or just "Rx". This symbol originated in medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation of the Late Latin verb recipe, the imperative form of recipere, "to take" or "take thus". See Medical prescriptions

Arial Unicode MS font includes the Rx character

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Arial Unicode MS
Cardo
Code2000
DejaVu Sans
DejaVu Sans Bold
DejaVu Sans Bold Oblique
DejaVu Sans Condensed
DejaVu Sans Condensed Bold
DejaVu Sans Condensed Bold Oblique
DejaVu Sans Condensed Oblique
DejaVu Sans Oblique
Essays 1743
Essays 1743 Bold
Essays 1743 Bold Italic
Essays 1743 Italic
EversonMono
EversonMono-Bold
EversonMono-BoldOblique
EversonMono-Oblique
FreeMono
FreeMono Oblique
FreeSans
FreeSans Oblique
FreeSerif
FreeSerif Bold
FreeSerif Bold Italic
FreeSerif Italic
GNU Unifont
JunicodeRegular
LastResort
LeedsUni
Lucida Sans Demibold
Lucida Sans Regular
Lucida Sans Unicode
PragmataPro
PragmataProMono
Quivira
Segoe UI Symbol
STIX-Bold
STIX-Regular
STIXMath-Regular
Symbola
Unicode BMP Fallback SIL
Unifont
Y.OzFont
Y.OzFontA
Y.OzFontAP
Y.OzFontN
Y.OzFontNP
Y.OzFontP

My W7 PC does not have many of these fonts, but it does have Segoe UI Symbol font as above, and Writer successfully finds and uses Rx from there.