Adding Symbols to the Favorites List

You may compose a list of your favorite symbols to insert them quickly when needed.

To add a symbol to the list of favorite symbols, do the following:

  1. Call up the Insert Symbol Dialog.

    To call up the Insert Symbol Dialog, choose Entity > Insert Symbol .

    The Insert Symbol Dialog will appear.

    Figure 1. Insert Symbol Dialog.



  2. Change the range of shown symbols if needed.

    To change the range of shown symbols, do one of the following:

    • Type the character code point in the Character Range text-box.

    • Select the character range from the Character Range drop-down list.

    • Click the arrow buttons next to the Character Range label to move to the next/previous adjacent portion of the table.

  3. Change the font if needed.

    Select the font from the Font drop-down list.

    Figure 2. Selecting a font.



    Note:

    If a symbol is not visible in the current font, you can change the font.

    Note:

    The symbol that is visible in the Insert Symbol Dialog may not be visible within the document because the font in the current position of the document may not contain this symbol. To make the symbol visible, correct the font in the stylesheet.

  4. Add a symbol to the Favorites list.
    1. Right-click the symbol in the table of symbols.
    2. Select Add to Favorites from the context menu.

    Figure 3. Adding a symbol to the Favorites list.



The symbol will be added to the Favorites List.

Figure 4. The symbol has been added to the Favorites list.



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Inserting Symbols
Removing Symbols from the Favorites List
Inserting Symbols from External DTD Subset
Inserting NBSP Symbols