Basic Working Procedures > Editing Topic Files > Special characters, lines and breaks

Like most modern word processors Help & Manual can also insert special characters not available on the keyboard, horizontal lines and hard page breaks.

Please note that special characters and hard page breaks need to be used with consideration for the limitations of your chosen output format: If the fonts required for the characters are not available on the user's computer the characters will not be displayed. Page breaks will only have any effect in output formats that have "pages" – PDF, printed manuals and Word RTF.

Note that It doesn't make much sense to use characters from a rare font in your WebHelp or HTML Help output, because most users won't have that font installed on their computers. If you use rare fonts in PDF you can embed the font in your output, but this will significantly increase the size of your PDF file. (Configuration > Publishing Options > Adobe PDF > Font Embedding.)

1.Click in the editor in the position where you want to insert the special character.

2.Select Write > Insert Object >

3.Common special characters can be selected directly in the menu -- or select More Symbols... to display more characters and all available fonts.

4.You can assign keyboard shortcuts to a number of these characters in View > Program Options > Shortcuts.

Horizontal lines are inserted in their own paragraph and they are not formattable. They always occupy the entire width of the page or table cell in which they are inserted.

1.Click in the editor in the position where you want to insert the horizontal line.

2.Select Write > Insert Object > to insert the line. A dialog will be displayed allowing you to choose the line thickness and color.

Hard page breaks are only used in PDF, printed manuals and Word RTF. They are ignored in all other formats.

1.Click in the editor in the position where you want to insert the hard page break.

2.Select Write > Insert Object >