TypeText Markup -- Special Characters
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Christian Augustin
2012-01-22 10:58
en-US
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In TypeText, :Special characters: stands for special notations to get characters that are not accessible (because they are used for markup or treated special, like the line break) or not available on the keyboard or hard to access (especially on the iPad).
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Special Characters

   _     non-breaking space
   \_    underline (using the backslash as escape char.)
   ^     thinspace (outside numbers and formulas)
   ~     soft hyphen
   -     en-dash (between spaces and punctuation, special in formulas)
   --    em-dash
   ...   ellipsis
   ||    breakpoint ???
   //    line break (with space before and space or end of line after it)
   ///   line break and clear floats

   \     escape character
   &...; HTML Entity

   "..." auto quotes (language specific)
   ``    opening quote character (language specific) ???
   ''    closing quote character (language specific) ???

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Perhaps the opening and closing quote characters can be used for the HTML inline quotation <q></q>?

Additionally there could be a notation for character codes that should be permanently replaced on occasion.
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