John Brandt’s Special Character Shortcuts is a beautiful, useful, comprehensive PDF that shows how to access any special character in any font. It can be used for finding the keystrokes necessary to type accented characters, ligatures, punctuation, currency and legal symbols, math and greek symbols. Keystrokes are listed for Mac and Windows, and also HTML codes for using these special characters on Web pages.
It also includes a special section on typing special nonprinting characters in QuarkXPress 7, as well as a clear description of how these special characters work, and a handy and informative typographer’s glossary.
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robert
// Sep 23, 2007 at 12:44 pm
hi. nice blog . thanks.
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Three Places to Find Keyboard Shortcuts
// Oct 29, 2007 at 9:20 am
[…] tip comes from John Brandt, the creator of Special Character Shortcuts v.1.2, which we published on Sept 20. John […]
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liviu
// Jun 20, 2008 at 3:30 am
well…,I was searching for the code for non breaking hyphen - to use it in a find/replace operation in quark. Your document says it’s the same “\h” as for the discretionary hyphen…:(
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Jay Nelson
// Jun 23, 2008 at 8:02 am
Hey Liviu, you’re right! That must be a typo. In any case, since a nonbreaking hyphen isn’t an invisible character, you can just type Command-= (Command-equal sign) into the Find field, or copy and paste one from your document.
Instead of a code, what you’ll see in the Find field is a hyphen.
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liviu
// Jun 23, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Thank you for your reply…
I understand that your solution (command+=) works in quarkxpress for mac. With xpress for windows… it won’t work. With copy - paste works just in document, when I paste it in the replace cassete it puts just an ordinary hyphen.
This is a good reason for me to try a powerpc with quarkxpress…
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