Inserting custom characters in transcription of an old Latin textbook

I am already using Scrivener in one conventional project, but I’m considering transcribing part of an old out of copyright Latin textbook as another.

Recreating the diacritial marks are not an issue, but I’m seriously wondering how to recreate the use of the brace ({) character particularly when a single brace to the left covers two lines the the right.

Is there any way to do this in Scrivener?

Hmm, I thought the link carried the example page number. The example is actually pages 8 and 9.

Maybe you can insert a table (Insert > Table) of three columns. You adjust it so that the middle column is narrower and place the {'s there and the text to the left and right. Then, you can choose to make the table white and thus functionally invisible.
I can’t think of any other way, as I believe Scrivener has no option to separate text into columns.

Vivere est cogitare, bona fortuna!

Open Emoji and symbols: All Parentheses you have the elements to create multiline braces etc. If you don’t see All Parentheses in the left sidebar click the circle-with-three-dots and choose it from the dropdown:

:slight_smile:
Mark

PS Obviously, line height and font-type may be an issue. It’s the sort of thing I would probably look to producing in other software.

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I was able to do this in Pages with a text box. Perhaps this can help.

I was able to do this in Scrivener with a Table. Perhaps this can help:
Table is 1 row, 2 columns: 10%, 90% Cell Width, Table Border 0px, Cell Background None.
Parenthesis is center aligned TNR 96pt/0.8x, text is Segoe 11pt/1.5x.

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