# How insert into Text cell chevron symbols used for Inline GroupOpener icons?

If in OptionInspector I select option "Inline" for Cell Options > Display Options > ShowGroupOpener for section-like cells, then when such a group is closed it shows an icon that is a little box, with rounded corners, containing a symbol similar to a right-pointing chevron, like this:

And when the group is open, the icon changes to one where the chevron points downward, like this:

(Ignore the color there: that's an artifact of a particular stylesheet I'm using.)

I want to be able to explain those icons in a Text cell. How can I insert those symbols there?

The best I've been able to obtain so far is the following:

openerClosedIcon = Framed[
Style["\[VeryThinSpace]\[VeryThinSpace]\[VeryThinSpace]»\
\[VeryThinSpace]\[VeryThinSpace]", Bold, 24],
FrameMargins -> None, RoundingRadius -> 5]


and

openerOpenIcon = Rotate[openerClosedIcon, -90 Degree]


which produce

and

respectively.

Those symbols are in fact special characters:

Row@{"\:f442", "\:f443"}


• How did you find these? I did not see them on the Special Characters palette. Jun 14, 2021 at 16:47
• I didn't find them, either, in the Documentation Center page guide/SpecialCharacters. Jun 14, 2021 at 16:54
• @murray I found them by noticing that the front-end access the file FileNameJoin@{\$InstallationDirectory, "SystemFiles", "FrontEnd", "TextResources", "MiscExpressions.tr"} when first displaying the symbols. And luckily, the relevant definitions for "cellGroupOpenerInline" are at the very top Jun 14, 2021 at 17:01