Bullets solution?

[angelfire4xx]

I have found bullets to be a bit of a thorny issue with Web Designer. Someone suggested creating a bullet - that was fine except that it has to be a graphic, which means painstakingly aligning each individual bullet with the line of accompanying text

Then I found this bullet » online and tried pasting it into WD. It seemed to work fine as a character, not a graphic.

So I was inspired to open up Windows Accessories > Character Map, went to the font I was using (Arial) and found indeed that Arial has a character »

It also has square, triangular and circular bullets. These seem to render fine on my browser (Firefox) but I'd love to know if you see what I see
Square bullet ■
Triangular bullet ►
Circular bullet ●

If they render ok on browsers then all you need do is paste them at the start of your line of text.

Linda

[covoxer]

Someone suggested creating a bullet - that was fine except that it has to be a graphic, which means painstakingly aligning each individual bullet with the line of accompanying text

No it doesn't. Don't forget you can paste anchored illustrations into the text.

[steve.ledger]

You can simply use ALT Codes (Press ALT + numpad numbers)


► Alt Codes Listing

Samples ☺

» 0187
• 0149
��© 0169
® 0174
™ 0153
¥ 0165
¢ 0162
° 0176
€ 0128
£ 156
► 16
◄ 17
▲ 30
▼ 31
◘ 8
▀ 223
▬ 22
◦ 9702
→ 26
← 27
↑ 24
↓ 25
♫ 14
♪ 13

[angelfire4xx]

Sledger, very helpful list, thanks. I didn't see anything much about bullets when I did a search in the Help files and forum shortly after buying the program. Just a few posts about difficulties people had had, and one suggestion to create your own bullet. 'Anchoring' graphics to text is not a concept that came up in the search either.

A better section on bullets in the help files would be much appreciated.
Linda

[steve.ledger]

Anchored Graphics not an option in Web Designer.
See: ► http://www.xara.com/uk/press/2009-06-08

[BQ]

for bullet, I use Ctrl + Alt B

[gwpriester]

You can simply use ALT Codes (Press ALT + numpad numbers)

Num Lock must be enabled.

[angelize]

I think that a proper bullets and numbering feature would be a good thing to add to both Web Designer and Xtreme. This thread was started in Dear Xara.

[Seagull]

So, maybe it's not a bullet but is made from Alt 13, Alt 14

[jimhanus]

I had a problem with some of the Alt codes not working. I didn't realize that not all fonts support the Alt code characters. I would just get a little square instead of the expected code, although I can't make it happen here. Maybe it's a font problem on my system?
Learn something new every day!

Jim