Special Symbols

Special Symbols

A document of Atlantis can contain not only usual characters (letters, digits, punctuation signs) but the special characters too.

The special characters are either invisible on paper or might look completely differently on the monitor screen and on paper.

By default the special characters are invisible within a document window. But you can make them visible but turning on the Special Symbols mode.
To turn this mode on as well as turn off, click the button on the toolbar of Atlantis.
Also you can switch this mode by choosing the View | Special Symbols command, or simply pressing the Ctrl+Shift+8 keys.

The state of this mode (on or off) does not affect the appearance of the document on paper.

The following table describes the special symbols of Atlantis, and the hot keys that can be used to insert these special symbol to the document.

Special
Symbol
Description Example Hot Key
Paragraph
End Mark
Terminates each paragraph. Enter
Line Break Breaks a paragraph line and starts a new line without starting a new paragraph. Shift+Enter
Page Break Starts a new page. Ctrl+Enter
Tab This symbol is used for lining up text or numbers in tables, or for aligning text to a specific location in the document.
Click here to read about Tabs.
Tab
Nonbreaking
Space
Instructs Atlantis to keep the preceding and the following words within the same paragraph line. Ctrl+Shift+Space
Nonbreaking
Hyphen
Instructs Atlantis to keep the preceding and the following words within the same paragraph line. Ctrl+Shift+
Hyphen
Optional
Hyphen
By default Atlantis wraps text by whole words. But this symbol allows to explicitly specify how the word containing this symbol, should be hyphenated when necessary.
This symbol specifies positions for hyphenation.
Shift+Alt+
Hyphen