I cannot for the life of me find the option to insert Special Characters. I’ve gone through all of the options in the various tabs up top but there’s nothing there, and I’ve googled it, but the only blog post i found about it was not helpful to me, and I’ve searched ‘special characters’ on this forum, but all the posts I’ve found keep referring to how to use key commands Instead of having to open the window, implying they can open the window that I currently cannot find.
I feel as though I’m missing something extremely obvious, but it’s very frustrating, considering I just want to use an accented e. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Character map?!
It’s under Character MAP?
I thought that was for actual Characters!
/o\ OH my god, thank you, I can’t believe I didn’t realize that’s what it meant.
I usually put a like on posts by people who are kind enough to say “thank you” before disappearing…
I sure would put a like on yours, but only if you first remove the part where you uselessly denigrate yourself.
Scrivener is a complex slice of pie. Not your fault.
The OP said they wanted to insert an accented e though doesn’t mention what machine. Discussion of character Map suggests Win, but for the Mac users no need to insert anything for special characters. Just hold down the appropriate key. In the case of é.hold down the e and after a short pause the option appears.
Select whichever you want.
For Windows PROVIDED you install the US English (International) keyboard and have that selected, selecting the accent character followed by the letter to apply it to will add it. For instance ’ followed by e will give you é
After 18 months of retirement enforced by two heart attacks including one with wife being allowed in as they prepped me to say goodbye, and shingles (that sucks big time) I"m going back to work Monday at a certain fruity company.
I appreciate the response with the suggestions for both Mac and Windows!
I didn’t mention what machine I’m using in the original post because I specifically wanted to ask how to open the Insert Special Characters Window in Scrivener. Not how to use unicode or other keyboard shortcuts, though again, thank you for the suggestions
I understand there is both a mac and a windows version of Scrivener, but my assumption was that the program should be similar enough no matter what version you use, that I should be able to just say ‘where is this thing in the Scrivener program’ and not need to specify anything outside of that, since I’m asking about a specific program, not something that should be machine specific.
Though, apparently it is, for some reason, which would explain why the only mention i could find when i tried to google my issue was someone directing me to a button which doesn’t exist on windows scrivener, the Emoji & Symbols button.
Some things, like these menu commands, will always differ in the particulars because they are provided by the particular platform. The character map is a Microsoft creation that we just call from Scrivener, as many other Windows programs do, and the Emoji & Symbols tool is standard Apple.
I need some specific ssymbols in my work. For example copyright symbol, trademark symbol, etc.
I know there are fonts of webdings and that kind of thing. However, there is no way I’ve found to view them to find what I need. So… help?
Hey friend, if you’re talking about finding the special character’s window, where I know the copyright and trademark symbols are, and if you’re on Windows, then it should be under Edit>Writing Tools>Character Map
If you click the ‘advanced view’ in the map, it’ll let you search for specific symbols, so you don’t have to skim through all the options.
A non related question, and I apologize but I’m scared to log out! LOL. Any idea why I have trouble logging into this forum… ever. single. time. It tells me the id/password is not recognized. I’ve changed BOTH to circumvent the problem. Still happens. If it weren’t for the notifications I wouldn’t have seen your solutions.
@AmberV
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Should you use google chrome, perhaps have it save your ID and password and autofill them.
Else, no real need to log out.
If indeed your browser is already auto filling the login info for you, perhaps it is the wrong ones? What would you say you did different when successfully login in ? (You are logged in right now… so, what did you do different?)
There are several versions that Google lists that go back well over a decade. The latest version I am aware of is dated “5 May 2021”.
The description as listed in the latest “5 May 2021” version is as follows:
“This document lists 18150 symbols and the corresponding LATEX commands that produce them. Some of these symbols are guaranteed to be available in every LATEX 2𝜀 system; others require fonts and packages that may not accompany a given distribution and that therefore need to be installed. All of the fonts and packages used to prepare this document—as well as this document itself—are freely available from the Comprehensive TEX Archive Network (http://www.ctan.org/).”
Quite handy for those of us who cannot find what we are looking for in the Mac Emoji & Symbols tool.
As a user currently transitioning from one OS to another, I find things I took for granted in the old OS, such as a keyboard shortcut, or “knowing” which dropdown menu had the required option, and what it was called, I now have to “unlearn” and start looking up things (I’m long enough in the tooth to remember the droll advice, “RTFM”, which preceded the now long-gone, but more amusing, Johnny-come-lately, “JFGI”— especially when deployed via a shortened “JLMGTFY” URL), so I sometimes find myself looking under the “Edit” and “Insert” menus for a logical means of using an accented letter (I know I can find the accented character elsewhere and copy it, or I can look up the arcane alt codes, but I want to know how to put it in without resorting to workarounds or kludges) but Edit > Emojis and Symbols has only emojis and what might be called “Wingdings” — no accented characters.
However, the “press and hold the key for the character to which you wish to apply an accent” method works a treat.
The default is to only show the emojis, but it is possible to expand this pane to see the full character viewer, including the accented characters, and if you close it in the expanded view, it should return to that next time you invoke it from the menu.
Depending on your keyboard settings, you can also create accented characters using specific ⌥+letter combinations as a dead key, so e.g. in the U.S. layout, you can use ⌥e to create an acute accent, then type the letter you want to place under it. I use the ABC - Extended to type macrons faster than the press-and-hold method. Some codes directly create the letter+accent.
You can always activate the Touch Keypad—it doesn’t require a touch screen. Works on Windows 10 and Windows 11—Google how to switch on in the respective OSs. The touch keypad then resides in your System Tray until you need it/click on it.
It opens in optional modes, for instance, taking up roughly half your screen—here’s an example of long pressing with your mouse pointer on the letter e for its options.
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