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Special symbols

Any document in Atlantis can contain various special characters and objects. Some of them never get printed on paper and by default are not visible in the document window.

The "Special symbols" mode of Atlantis makes it easier to identify the special characters and objects contained by the document. To activate this mode, click the Special symbols Button image button of the View toolbar The 'View' toolbar , or choose the "View | Special Symbols" menu command, or press CtrlShift8. When this mode is on, Atlantis displays special symbols for the special characters and objects contained by the document.

The following table lists all the special symbols of Atlantis, the corresponding special characters and objects, and the hot keys that can be used to insert those characters and objects to a document:

Special symbol Special character/object Hot key
The "end of paragraph" mark

Terminates each paragraph.
Enter
¤ The "end of cell" mark

Terminates each table cell.
¤ The "end of row" mark

Terminates each table row.
The 'line break' special symbol Line break

Starts a new paragraph line without starting a new paragraph.
ShiftEnter
·····Page Break····· Page break

Creates a manual page break.
CtrlEnter
·····Column Break····· Column break

Starts a new column in a multicolumn section.
CtrlShiftEnter
:::::Section Break::::: Section break

Starts a new document section.
The 'tab' special symbol Tab character

Tab characters are used for lining up text or numbers in tables, or for aligning text to a specific location in the document.
Tab
° Nonbreaking space

Prevents an automatic line break (line wrap) at its position.
CtrlShiftSpace
Nonbreaking hyphen

Prevents an automatic line break (line wrap) at its position.
CtrlShiftHyphen
The 'optional hyphen' special symbol Optional hyphen

Indicates a position within a word where an automatic hyphen can be placed.
AltShiftHyphen
The 'bookmark delimiter' special symbol Bookmark delimiters

Indicates bookmarked locations or text fragments in a document.
AltShiftB
The 'automatic note reference' special symbol Automatic note reference

When documents include automatic footnote or endnote reference marks, they are highlighted with a dotted frame.
Note that custom note reference marks are not framed in such a way.
AltShiftF
or
AltShiftD
The 'index entry' special symbol Index entry

Indicates index entries used to generate the index.
AltShiftX

Tip:

  • Some special characters can be inserted to a document through the drop-down menu of the Insert symbol Button image button of the Insert toolbar The 'Insert' toolbar .