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  • Windows shortcut for Virgule/Solidus?

    #1
    Ok, so I have my Typography final tomorrow. I'm going over my notes, trying to get my shortcuts memorized. We work on Macs at the campus, but I have a PC. Usually shortcuts are interchangeable between programs, but apparently not.

    I freaked out when the Solidus shortcut (OPT+SHF+1) didn't work as ALT+SHF+1 on my PC. I thought I had taken notes wrong, and spent the next 30 minutes trying to find the right one. Turns out I have the right shortcut down, but I can't figure out what the shortcut is for PC.

    Anyone know what the shortcut is, or a sheet that has a list of the InDesign CS2/3 shortcuts?
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  • #2
    what's solidus?

    here's a list of shortcuts for indesign cs2 for PC:

    http://www.nobledesktop.com/shortcut...igncs2-pc.html

    i don't know how comprehensive it is, but its got most of the useful ones.

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    • #3
      A Virgule or Solidus is the proper mark for fractions, not the standard backslash, that most people use. Open a font like Adobe Jenson, the type a /, and go to your Glyps tab, you should see an alternate character that is slanted a bit more.

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      • #4
        Thanks for the link to the site, but it didn't have the shortcut either. I guess this is one of the most uncommon shortcuts ever...

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        • #5
          under opentype features, you can select 'fractions' and it automatically uses the virgule. if you're doing something with lots of fractions, maybe you can set a character style with that turned on, then just use shorctus to change the character style.

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          • #6
            Hold down alt and type 2044 on your number pad.

            No, I certainly don't have this stuff memorised.

            But I also only needed to look it up on the web because I'm sitting at a Mac. In Windows, all the special characters are alt + some number typed on the numberpad. You can find out that number using the character map application.

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            • #7
              Right, but the reason it threw me off was because shortcuts for say, ellipses (OPT+: or ALT+ translated easily over to my PC. Thanks for the help guys. Like I said, it's for my final, so I have to know the shortcut.

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              • #8
                They trick you like that

                Those Mac shortcuts are actually part of the OS. Windows equivalent way of accessing the extended character set is using alt+numpad. But, some of the Adobe applications (I don't think Quark does it, but I haven't used it for a while) implement similar shortcut keys to make it easier to switch between Mac and PC. But they don't do all of them, andd when you hit one they didn't it trips you up.

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                • #9
                  OMG

                  and i thought i had problems find or trying to find the character map in quark today

                  me embarrasingly hides behind hewligan

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