Accented Letters in a Xara Document

[Acorn]

Have a look at copychar.cc ... you click on a character and it adds it to the clipboard for pasting. Not all characters work with Xara, but I find it very useful for a lot of items especially the fractions, in a number of programs.

Yes, I remember you plugging it before.

What I liked about it is the top line remembers which ones you copied and you can grab these again.

𓀉 👍 × 🖨 🃏 🃍 ※ 👍 ☤ ☝

Acorn

[ss-kalm]

You have a better memory than I have then ...

[Acorn]

...but I missed looking at the Info button top-right that separately allows the copy to Clipboard for the Unicode or HTML Code.

Brill.

I just created a naff Xara Widget:

<XaraWidget>
<WidgetName>copychar.cc</WidgetName>
<CreateURL>https://copychar.cc</CreateURL>
<BrowserWidth>1024</BrowserWidth>
<BrowserHeight>800</BrowserHeight>
<WidgetHelp>
- Select any symbol or character.
- It is copied to your Clipboard.
- Click the Info button to see and copy Unicode or HTML Code as well.
- Press the Cancel button.
- Paste into your design.
</WidgetHelp>
</XaraWidget>

Copy into a text editor and Save as CharCopy.xwr.
Mine is in a Widget Folder and is accessed through the Local Designs gallery.

XWR files are used to build Placeholders with body code; here you just close it.
It saves the need for a separate browser window.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

I am having no joy with the & and inverted ? and ! and the ligatured letters.

[Acorn]

I am having no joy with the & and inverted ? and ! and the ligatured letters.

Gary, if you're not using a Unicode font they might not be there to show.
That said, i have rechecked and the shortcuts work in MS Word but not Xara!

My get out of jail free card is to change your Auto Correction dictionary to something like:

! ! you can press Ctrl+Z to undo any autocorrection
!! ¡ inverted exclamation mark
"" “” smart double quotes
'' ‘’ smart single quotes
(&) § section
(.) · middle dot
(/) ÷
(aa) å
(ae) æ ligature
(c) ©
(co) ℅
(d) ° degree
(e) €
(mu) µ
(oe) ø
(pc) ¶ pilcrow
(r) ®
(ss) ß
(tm) ™
+- ±
--- — em dash
... … ellipsis
1. 1.
1/2 ½
1/4 ¼
1/8 ⅛
3/4 ¾
3/8 ⅜
5/8 ⅝
7/8 ⅞
<< « left guillemet
>> » right guillemet
?? ¿?

Acorn

[gwpriester]

Arial and Georgia?

[Acorn]

Arial and Georgia?

Gary, just checked they are all there in Arial so Xara must filter them away:

• Shift+Alt+Ctrl+& is picked up by Xara as Shift+Alt+Ctrl+7, which is assigned to Disable Live Share. To re-enable, use Shift+Alt+Ctrl+6.
• Shift+Alt+Ctrl+! (Shift+Alt+Ctrl+1) & Shift+Ctrl+& are both unassigned.
• Shift+Ctrl+A is Paste Attributes.
• Shift+Ctrl+O is Open the Options Dialog.

Thank you for advising, I should have checked these.

Autocorrection guidance: https://helpandsupport.xara.com/xara...orrection.html.
This updates or creates a plain text file. Mine is autocorrect_en_GB.txt in %localappsdata%/Xara/(product)/<version), or thereabouts.

Acorn