Liquent InSight Rendering 4.4 Administration

Remapping Special Characters

You can translate (remap) special characters that may appear in a file, such as Greek characters or scientific symbols, with the plug-ins that allow remapping. The plug-ins that allow for character remapping can handle octal, hexadecimal and decimal character codes. You build a library of commonly used special characters and assign another character to replace the special character in the rendition. You can also strip-out any character so that it will not appear in the rendition.

For example, to replace any tab found in a document extract's title with a space, type the control code for a tab (\t) in the Special Character box and then type the character code for a space from the appropriate font character set in the Replacement Character box. When the plug-in extracts the entities, it replaces all tabs with a space in the extract titles.

Special characters defined in a plug-in affect either the text of a document's pages in the rendition or the bookmark labels in a rendition. Only the ASCII plug-in provides the ability to select which font character set to use (ESPS ASCII, ESPS ANSI, or Courier); all other plug-ins use the ESPS ANSI character set.

The Font character sets topic list the decimal character codes for the fonts available in  InSight Rendering. When entering special characters, typing the character code number designates it as a decimal character code. For other character codes, use the following code prefixes before the character code number:
  • \ Control Codes
  • 0x Hexadecimal
To re-map special characters:
  1. From a plug-in, click Special Char to view the screen shown above.
  2. To add a character to the list:, do the following.
    1. In the Special Characters box, enter the code for the character you want to replace or not print.
    2. In the Replacement Character box, enter a code for the character you want to print, or type a zero (0) to strip-out the character
    3. Click Add.
  3. To remove a character from the list, select a character code in the list and then click Remove.
  4. Click OK.