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| Registered: April 13, 2007 |  Posts: 651 |
| | Posted: | | | | How do I enter the double combined minus sign? into the overview? the sign that is like this -- but without the space in the middle. | | | "What's God?"
"You know when you want something really bad and you wish for it?, God's the guy that ignores you"
-The Island, Steve Buscemi |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 254 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hold down alt and type 0151. | | | | "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it." - Jack Handey |
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| Registered: April 13, 2007 | | Posts: 651 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Broven: Quote:
Hold down alt and type 0151. Thank you  | | | "What's God?"
"You know when you want something really bad and you wish for it?, God's the guy that ignores you"
-The Island, Steve Buscemi |
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| Registered: May 9, 2008 | | Posts: 467 |
| | Posted: | | | | Anyother way you can do this for any character you do not know the ALT code for is if you go to:
Programs > Accessories > Systems tools
You should see "Character Mapper"
This problem will let you select an installed character sets and font and pick any character and copy it into the Cut/Past buffer. This also shows you the ALT code in the lower left corner.
This helps when you have like characters like ÿ in a credited name.
Tom |
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| Registered: May 20, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,934 |
| | Posted: | | | | Depends on which you need
You refer to an em DAsh (—) alt+0151
or en dash (–) alt+0150
or just a dash (-) |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CharlieM: Quote:
Depends on which you need
You refer to an em DAsh (—) alt+0151
or en dash (–) alt+0150
or just a dash (-) And just in case you don't know which one to use: The em dash should be the same length as a capital M The en dash should be the same length as a capital N So fingers crossed your overview either has an M or an N in it!  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | And another way would be to ask "Why try and enter it in the first place?"
No doubt - someone will immediately respond that we have to enter everything exactly otherwise the Polar ice caps will melt faster. But really - some changes which are really trivial should be blocked by Invelos at the contribution stage.
For instance - re-ordering of existing genres
- submitting extra spaces / less spaces in Overview
- changing a - to --
etc.
Lets make life easier for a) contributions. b) people checking contributions and c) the screeners. | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 | | Posts: 254 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
And just in case you don't know which one to use:
The em dash should be the same length as a capital M
The en dash should be the same length as a capital N
So fingers crossed your overview either has an M or an N in it! If you can't tell wether its an en-dash or an em-dash, this may help. The en-dash is generally used to separate ranges, like 50–60 years. Or to show a relationship between two things, like the New York–London flight. I think of it this way, if the dash could be replaced with the word "to", then it's an en-dash (though there are exceptions). The em-dash is generally used to mark parenthetical thoughts. Of course, there's no telling if the person who did the text on the cover followed the rules. | | | | "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it." - Jack Handey |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Posts: 700 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting tkinnen: Quote:
Anyother way you can do this for any character you do not know the ALT code for is if you go to:
Programs > Accessories > Systems tools
You should see "Character Mapper"
This problem will let you select an installed character sets and font and pick any character and copy it into the Cut/Past buffer. This also shows you the ALT code in the lower left corner.
This helps when you have like characters like ÿ in a credited name.
Tom Or just type "charmap" into the Run field under start menu... | | | | We are all at the same age, only at different time... |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting oleops: Quote:
Quoting tkinnen:
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Anyother way you can do this for any character you do not know the ALT code for is if you go to:
Programs > Accessories > Systems tools
You should see "Character Mapper"
This problem will let you select an installed character sets and font and pick any character and copy it into the Cut/Past buffer. This also shows you the ALT code in the lower left corner.
This helps when you have like characters like ÿ in a credited name.
Tom
Or just type "charmap" into the Run field under start menu...  | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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