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 of 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.
	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.
	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
	Optional hyphen Indicates a position within a word where an automatic hyphen can be placed.	AltShiftHyphen
	Bookmark delimiters Indicates bookmarked locations or text fragments in a document.	AltShiftB
	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
	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 of the Insert toolbar .