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Subject:Re: Em-dashes and En-dashes in RoboHelp From:Lee Hunter <lee -dot- hunter -at- hum -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:43:08 -0500
Quoting Steven Oppenheimer <Steven -at- OppenheimerCommunications -dot- com>:
> I am a heavy user of Em-dashes and En-dashes in my writing. Unfortunately,
> in RoboHelp, to access these, it seems you have to always do the following:
I highly recommend the KeyText program that someone mentioned here a few weeks
ago.
It's a very handy little program, indeed, especially for technical writers. It
allows you to create macros for any program - and also macros that move back
and forth between more than one program.
This macro when used in RoboHelp, takes me to the en-dash position in the
dialogue box ...
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