Thank you very much! The second method (with autocompletion) is what I was looking for. In a future release, it would be a nice touch to display the symbols next to the entity names.
Sincerely, Cay Horstmann Hussein Shafie wrote: > Cay Horstmann wrote: > >>I just downloaded XXE version 3.1.0. How do I enter a character entity >>such as © or π? The documentation alludes to a "character tool", >>but I haven't been able to find it. > > > The "Character Tool" will be displayed if you click on its tab. Its tab > (found at the very right of the main window) contains an icon looking > like this: "???". > > Note that with XXE, there is no way to enter a character *entity*. You > can just enter characters: the copyright character and PI character are > not treated differently from 'a' or 'Z'. > > Now if you choose to save your documents using the US-ASCII character > set for example, as configured by default, XXE will automatically save > these characters as "©" et as "π". See > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/com.xmlmind.xmleditapp.dialog.PreferencesEditorDialog.html#saveOptions > > --- > PS: There is an alternate user interface for inserting special > characters. This alternate user interface allows you to specify a > character by its entity name (supports auto-completion) but just like > the character tool, this other tool insert characters, and not character > entities. > > If you want to use this, use "Options|Install Add-ons", install the > add-on called "A sample customize.xxe", restart XXE. Then type Esc > followed by Shift-C to insert a special character by name. > > -- Cay S. Horstmann | http://horstmann.com | mailto:cay at horstmann.com
