March 9, 2006

Alt + ?

Anyone know how I can make MT display Alt + [keystrokes] coded characters (e.g., accents, em dashes)? MT 3.2 seems to <3 the &whatever; command characters, but I'm used to doing it the other way and don't want to learn a new trick. Where I usually find an em dash by typing Alt + 0151, now I get —. It just won't do.

Posted by Kriston at March 9, 2006 11:45 AM
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Sorry, but you really ought to use the &mdash; method. Using alt+ may produce garbage characters for some users in different regions.

Posted by: tom at March 9, 2006 12:50 PM

"&whatever;" named entities are easy to grok.

Em-dash? &mdash; —
En-dash? &ndash; –
Ampersand? &amp; &
Greater than? &gt; >
Less than? &lt; <
"O" with an umlaut? &Ouml; Ö
"e" with an acute accent? &eacute; é

"Em-dash → mdash" strikes me as easier to remember than "Em-dash → Alt + 0151".

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Posted by: Dan at March 9, 2006 12:54 PM

Fair enough. It's just that I picked up a quick hand with Alt + codes in order to avoid Word's dread autoformat function. I'll try to adapt.

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