The math teachers that I work with are looking for a symbol to be added in the Insert Equation tools for 'absolute value'. While they know they can type abs to create the absolute value symbol, they state it would be convenient for students to have the symbol already in there as an option to click on. It's a symbol commonly used in Algebra.
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One possible solution would be to have them use the vertical line key (shift-forward slash).
As long as you use the same key to code the answer it seems to work.
Here is the text editor version of my question:
Type: F, Match
1) Type `abs(x+3)`
________
a. |x+3|
Here is what it renders: