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Originally Posted by Greg Anos
It shows you how to go into the character map in windows (I have virtual machines for both Win 7 and XP. Both based on legitimate retail copies I own.). The map has a very useful help screen.
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LibreOffice's
Insert Special Character screen is also very good.
It's even better than the default Windows Character Map, because it lets you search.
Side Note: If working on EPUB, Calibre Editor's special character dialog is equally as fantastic.
If on Windows, you can also use
BabelMap. It's pretty much a souped up Character Map, allows you to search fonts, find all Unicode characters, create your own buffers, etc. etc.
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Originally Posted by Greg Anos
I'm keeping a second .doc document with the characters I need (and commonly used words) and do a scrape and paste.
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Yep, that's an okay way to do it too.
In books I work on, I only run across the rare accent, so I have a few of those Wikipedia pages open for exactly what I need. (Like their
Greek alphabet +
Greek diacritics pages are very well organized.)
I also use
FileFormat.info's fantastic "Unicode Character Search".
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Originally Posted by Greg Anos
RTF - How do you remove the hard-coded vertical line spacing? I have had the same problem with optiscan and Finereader 9 as I have with my current "junk" setup.
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Unsure what you mean. Can you post a sample document?
It should be as easy as adjusting the default paragraph's Style.
You do know all about Styles... right?
On how to apply Styles, check out the videos I posted in:
"MS Word vs Open Office Word"
On why Styles are so important, read Posts #46+ in:
"eBook Formatting in Sigil"
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Originally Posted by Jellby
Actually, the only entities one should really need are < & >, because their characters (< & >) would be XML code otherwise.
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Ahhh yes yes, I always forget about those 3 since Sigil/Calibre automatically takes care of all of that.
