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Looking for a symbol (was Re: Handy resource when you need a specific character (em dash, en dash, ...))
Subject:Looking for a symbol (was Re: Handy resource when you need a specific character (em dash, en dash, ...)) From:Mike Starr <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:41:00 -0500
Speaking of special characters, I'm looking for a symbol that's used in electrical specifications. It's a symbol that represents DC voltage... a solid line with three dashes below it. I looked through the installed fonts on my system yesterday and couldn't find it. Anybody know a font that has that symbol? I found it as a graphic at http://www.appropedia.org/Low_voltage_connection_basics#What_is_DC-voltage (http://tinyurl.com/y7cbau8) but I'd much rather have it as a character.
Thanx.
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On 4/14/2010 9:55 AM, David Castro wrote:
> I was using a new tool the other day that doesn't have a Special Character
> feature like Word and FrameMaker do, and needed to put in an en-dash. I
> don't know the ALT+#### command for en-dash by heart just yet. I was able to
> find the code using Google, but just today found another resource that makes
> it really easy to copy and paste special characters into your documents:
>http://www.copypastecharacter.com/
>
> It displays a slew of special characters in 72 point type. When you click
> one, it copies it to your clipboard, and then you can paste it into your
> document. Very handy!
>
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