From b4feff193b9e7f4ed779d7271698ab9aa592ed3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:07:40 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Add blurb on insert character to the manual http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html#inserting-special-characters --- manual/edit.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/manual/edit.rst b/manual/edit.rst index 9979b74a38..068c42c1c9 100644 --- a/manual/edit.rst +++ b/manual/edit.rst @@ -425,10 +425,10 @@ use the bulk renaming facility of the Files Browser, described above, to give the split off files sensible names. -Miscellaneous Views +Miscellaneous Tools ---------------------- -There are a few more views that can be useful while you edit the book. +There are a few more tools that can be useful while you edit the book. The Table of Contents View ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -439,6 +439,22 @@ You can right click to edit the Table of Contents, refresh the view or expand/collapse all items. Access this view via :guilabel:`Views->Table of Contents`. +Inserting special characters +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +You can insert characters that are difficult to type by using the +:guilabel:`Edit->Insert special character` tool. This shows you all unicode +characters, simply click in the character you want to type. If you hold Ctrl +while clicking, the window will close itself after inserting the selected +character. + +Because there are a lot of character, you can define your own "Favorites" +characters, that will be shown first. Simply right click on a character to mark +it as favorite. You can also right click on a character in favorites to remove +it from favorites. Finally, you can re-arrange the order of characters in +favorites by clicking the :guilabel:`Re-arrange favorties` button and then drag +and dropping the characters in favorites around. + The code inspector view ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^