DeScribe 5 - Tips and Techniques

Custom Bullet Characters

It is possible in DeScribe to use any available character in any font as a bullet character. You can use a star, a diamond, or other character available through the code page and available fonts to set off your bullets.

Bullet characters are assigned through the Outline in Styles, and a special Style Sheet will need to be set up to accommodate the font.

Locate the Character You Want to Use

Find out what character number and font you want.

  1. In Edit-Character Manager browse through Available characters.
  2. Click on the character in the list and the number will display.
    Note the font name. Notice that different fonts may contain different character sets. Symbol Set in OS/2 and Wingdings Windows are good sources for different characters.
  3. Click Done.

Set up Styles In the Style Manager

In the example below we are using the layout named "DOCUMENT" that ships with version 5.

Open the Style Manager

  1. Choose Style-Style Manager.

Create a Style Sheet for the Bullet font Character

  1. Double - click on Document.
  2. Double - click on Bulleted List.
  3. Click Create.
    Name the Style something like "Bullet Font".
  4. Select the desired font from Font List.
    This would be the font that contains the character you found for your special bullet character.
  5. Click OK.

Modify the Bulleted List Style to Include the Stylesheet for the Font

  1. Go to Bulleted List.
  2. Choose Change
  3. Select Outlining.
  4. In the Append box enter the Character #.
    Make sure to remove the text in the Append Box first. The Character will appear from the Code Page.
  5. In Style select the Bullet Font to attach the "Bullet Font" stylesheet created above.
  6. Click OK.

You should now be able to use the bullet list style sheet in the Style Palette with your selected special character appearing as the bullet.

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