Text Symbols
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Are there "Degree", "Plus or Minus", "Diameter" more...symbols?
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Are you trying to add these symbols to the text in a LayOut document? If so, you can add those characters (if the chosen font includes them) via Character Map under Windows>Accessories. Many of the characters can be typed by holding Alt and typing a 4-digit number on the numeric keypad. For example a degree symbol (°) is typed by holding Alt and typing 0176.
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@dave r said:
Are you trying to add these symbols to the text in a LayOut document? If so, you can add those characters (if the chosen font includes them) via Character Map under Windows>Accessories. Many of the characters can be typed by holding Alt and typing a 4-digit number on the numeric keypad. For example a degree symbol (°) is typed by holding Alt and typing 0176.
"...via Character Map under Windows>Accessories."
I do not see this under the Layout Window menu; is it not inside the program Layout?. I did use the four digit code to get the result. Where are these codes located for quick reference?
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The Character-Map tool is under Windows>Accessories i.e. accessed via the main PC's Windows Start menu... note that it is there, but it's inside the SystemTools subfolder in Vista...
It's a Windows tool
Any keystroke combo is shown bottom right. Simply select the symbol[s] you want and copy to the clipboard the revert to your Layout window and paste it [or you can do the Altxxxxx combos inside your app' once you've learnt them 
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Sorry I wasn't more clear on that. Looks like TIG to the rescue.
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…and just to include us Maconauts, the Character Viewer and Keyboard Viewer apps can be added to the menubar from the SystemPreferences|Keyboard pane - tick the 'Show Keyboard & Character viewer in menubar' checkbox.
You can get all sorts of interesting characters.
Ever head of the 'Z notation schema composition' symbol? - ⨟ - Nor me.
Asterism - ⁂
Degree - °
Plusminus - ±
Diameter - ⌀
Blank symbol - ␢ (but it's not blank!)
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