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It took me a minute to figure it out but its really neat☺

As a writer, this is a real help. I no longer have to go to the Insert icon and then click through a couple of portals to hunt for the special symbol I need.

¡ and ¿ are ones I use a lot and this will allow me to go on without losing my train of thought.

I found this on Google+ and am sorry that I didn't remember the name of the one who posted it.

Cool! Thanks.

Here's one that's a bit easier to read:

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736...

On many touchscreens, holding a key will show you additional characters.

The official site for characters with chart of likely to be needed ones if you do want to copy is at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names... (if more needed, try links listed under unicode character references at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names... )

W3.org is the official site and is accurate for almost all displays. Not necessarily easiest to read.

Useful links you may find easier to understand (or at the least copy from) are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_cha... , http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/A... ,

For non-windows keyboards and operating systems, this link might prove helpful: http://alt-codes.org/ or Mac option key codes http://www.nouilles.info/keyboard_sho...

Once you get into characters not in Ascii, Iso or unicode sets you can run into problems on some operating systems, displays or non-English languages.

Some common characters if you do not want to click links and prefer to cut/paste: a ã å ā a à á â ä Æ Ã Å Ā À Á Â Ä ć ç č Ć Ç Č ę ē ė ë é è ê Ę Ē Ė Ë É È Ê į ì ī ï î í Į Ì Ī Ï Î Í ł Ł ń ñ Ń Ñ ō œ ø õ ó ö ô ò Ō Œ Ø Õ Ó Ö Ô Ò ś ß š Š Ś ū ú ü û ù Ū Ú Ü Û Ù ÿ Ÿ ź ž ż Ź Ž Ż … ¿ ¡ ‘ ’ ` °


✔ ✘ ♥ ♡ ★ ☆
½ ¼ ¾
™
¢ ₩ ¥ € ¢ £
©
®
← → ↑ ↓
Ø
em dash is —

Thanks for some good information.

The nouilles chart is especially good.

Where does one find a selection of the glyphs for use on the first page of each chapter? They're usually a small, curly, symmetrical line drawing that's included either as a jpeg image or as a special typographic symbol. Illustrator and InDesign have these built in, but I'm looking for sources of royalty-free JPEG image files.

Bradford wrote: "Where does one find a selection of the glyphs for use on the first page of each chapter? They're usually a small, curly, symmetrical line drawing that's included either as a jpeg image or as a spec..."

They are not a character set or codes like the Unicode, ISO, HTML, ANSII, etc.. characters supported by most keyboard/displays.

Usually you find under different fonts you have installed on your computer (webdings, symbols, dingbats, and such may be in the title) or fonts purchased/found on the internet, a few may be in your word processing program under possibly "insert character" or whatever your program says; others are just graphics you buy or find n the internet (a lot of out of copyright graphics for flourishes, dividers, Captal's, etc.).

The glyphs, versus character sets, may not show well on ereaders and apps (or even some device display settings). Not usually so terrible on ereaders if just used at a chapter start because it only messes up a small portion then the regular text appears; but, still I'd suggest being cautious. A great deal depends on your ebook conversions and which ereaders (some support graphics better than others). Generally, the plainer the text and formatting without a lot of graphics (or if necessary try sticking to full page graphics), the better the conversion to ebook.

If you are wanting for webpage or blogs, that's something else ( although, again, not all browsers and devices will display well). A little perusal of the internet for blog goodies likely will give you plenty.

Plus Dover and other publishers offer print books to scan or or on CD, for example, Full-Color Art Nouveau Designs and Motifs CD-ROM and Book; some fonts free from google for blog/webpage use: http://www.google.com/fonts ; some free vintages at http://www.chronicallyvintage.com/201... — there are lots of resources and links.

The characters and codes posted on this thread are the ones most keyboards and devices and the html browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc.) support.