Typing unusual characters – Nisus Writer Pro User Manual
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. How razorback-jumping frogs can level six-piqued
gymnasts!
With a monospaced font (9 point Courier)
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. How razorback-jumping frogs can
level six-piqued gymnasts!
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Type
@
only to line up columns, not to begin a paragraph with an indentation.
If you want an indent at a new paragraph you use the first line indent indicator on the ruler.
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Type
<
only to begin a new paragraph, not at the end of each line or to “double-space.”
The Macintosh makes its sound only when you try to do something that it cannot do at that
time—not, as in the days of typewriters when you reach the end of a line.
Typing Unusual Characters
The Macintosh provides you with a wide variety of characters. Among these characters you can find
symbols (often called dingbats
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) and characters from almost every written language.
For more information about entering text in various languages see “Writing in Multiple Languages”
on page 27, and the section “Enter special characters into your text” on page 23.
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While you can type these unusual characters, Nisus Writer Pro supports entering them directly from
the menus and from a special Special Characters palette as explained in “Enter special characters into
your text” on page 23. All the characters available in the manner are listed beginning on page 435.
Turn on display of the Input (keyboard “flag”) menu
The following information is based on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.x).
1. Choose the menu command Apple > System Preferences… and choose (click) Language &
Text from the Personal (top) row of icons.
2. In the Language & Text preferences click the Input Sources tab at the far right on the top.
3. Check any input methods (keyboards) you want to have appear on the menu.
4. Check Show Input menu in menu bar.
Figure 433
The Input Sources tab of the Language & Text (System) preferences (in Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard)
5. Close the dialog.
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Some fonts consist of nothing but dingbats.