Entering Symbols

For simple equations, you may only need the letters, symbols and digits available on the keyboard. However, in many situations, you will want to enter special mathematical symbol characters. You can enter a symbol in an equation by clicking it on the toolbar, or by selecting it from one of the symbol palettes, also on the toolbar.

Alternatively, if you know the symbol's name or numerical code, you can enter it directly, using the Insert Symbol submenu.

The standard toolbar configuration contains many commonly used symbol characters. However, there is a very large number of MathML symbols (around 1300), and although MathFlow doesn't support all 1300, it supports more than appear in the standard toolbar.

MathFlow Editor has customizable toolbars and by changing toolbar palettes, you can access most of the MathML symbols MathFlow supports. However, some rare characters don't appear in the built-in toolbars, so if you need to use these characters frequently, you will probably want to make a custom toolbar containing them.