Any document in Atlantis contains special symbols that are never printed on paper.

By default, special symbols are not displayed in the document window. They become visible when you activate the Special symbols mode. To toggle this mode on or off, click the Special symbols toolbar button, or choose the View | Special Symbols menu The main menu or simply menu is a horizontal bar with clickable commands anchored to the top of the main window of Atlantis:

command, or press CtrlShift8.

The following table lists all the special symbols of Atlantis:

Special symbol	Description	Associated 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.	ShiftAltHyphen
	Bookmark delimiters Indicates bookmarked locations or text fragments in a document.
	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.

Tip:

• Some special symbols can be inserted to a document through the drop-down menu of the Insert symbol toolbar button.