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How to enter the long - in overview?
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How do I enter the double combined minus sign? into the overview? the sign that is like this -- but without the space in the middle.
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Hold down alt and type 0151.
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Quoting Broven:
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Hold down alt and type 0151.

Thank you
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Anyother way you can do this for any character you do not know the ALT code for is if you go to:

Programs > Accessories > Systems tools

You should see "Character Mapper"

This problem will let you select an installed character sets and font  and pick any character and copy it into the Cut/Past buffer.  This also shows you the ALT code in the lower left corner.

This helps when you have like characters like ÿ in a credited name.

Tom
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Depends on which you need

You refer to an em DAsh (—) alt+0151
or en dash (–) alt+0150

or just a dash (-)
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Depends on which you need

You refer to an em DAsh (—) alt+0151
or en dash (–) alt+0150

or just a dash (-)

And just in case you don't know which one to use:
The em dash should be the same length as a capital M
The en dash should be the same length as a capital N

So fingers crossed your overview either has an M or an N in it! 
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And another way would be to ask "Why try and enter it in the first place?"

No doubt - someone will immediately respond that we have to enter everything exactly otherwise the Polar ice caps will melt faster. But really - some changes which are really trivial should be blocked by Invelos at the contribution stage.

For instance - re-ordering of existing genres
                - submitting extra spaces / less spaces in Overview
                - changing a - to --
etc.

Lets make life easier for a) contributions. b) people checking contributions and c) the screeners.
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Quoting northbloke:
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And just in case you don't know which one to use:
The em dash should be the same length as a capital M
The en dash should be the same length as a capital N

So fingers crossed your overview either has an M or an N in it! 


If you can't tell wether its an en-dash or an em-dash, this may help.
The en-dash is generally used to separate ranges, like 50–60 years. Or to show a relationship between two things, like the New York–London flight.  I think of it this way, if the dash could be replaced with the word "to", then it's an en-dash (though there are exceptions).

The em-dash is generally used to mark parenthetical thoughts.

Of course, there's no telling if the person who did the text on the cover followed the rules.
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Quoting tkinnen:
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Anyother way you can do this for any character you do not know the ALT code for is if you go to:

Programs > Accessories > Systems tools

You should see "Character Mapper"

This problem will let you select an installed character sets and font  and pick any character and copy it into the Cut/Past buffer.  This also shows you the ALT code in the lower left corner.

This helps when you have like characters like ÿ in a credited name.

Tom


Or just type "charmap" into the Run field under start menu...
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Quoting oleops:
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Quoting tkinnen:
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Anyother way you can do this for any character you do not know the ALT code for is if you go to:

Programs > Accessories > Systems tools

You should see "Character Mapper"

This problem will let you select an installed character sets and font  and pick any character and copy it into the Cut/Past buffer.  This also shows you the ALT code in the lower left corner.

This helps when you have like characters like ÿ in a credited name.

Tom


Or just type "charmap" into the Run field under start menu...




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