Special Character Markers usually represent non-printing characters, and can be used anywhere in where you would put text, such as in holidays names, slogans text, saras, holidays options, ...
•As compared to tokens, these markers are not framed by braces, and they begin with an ampersand (eg: &n ).
•If you wish to include an ampersand as plain text (not as a special characters token) then you should use its ASCII value, namely &038.
•Some of the special characters are common to both QuarkXPress and InDesign, and some are specific to InDesign only.
The following tables list the available Special Character Markers, when using InDesign to generate a diary or calendar:
Markers Common to InDesign and QuarkXPress
The following table lists the available special character markers, that are common to InDesign and QuarkXPress:
Special Characters |
Token |
Non-Breaking Special Characters |
Token |
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&c |
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&!h |
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&s |
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&!s |
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&t |
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&!q |
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&:t |
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&!f |
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&i |
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&xxx |
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&:h |
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&:d |
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&:c |
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&:b |
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&:f |
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&:p |
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Flex Space (Quarter em) |
&:q |
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&0 |
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The following special character markers are accessible by their InDesign-specific hexadecimal value:
Hard Space non-breaking, justifying space (same as &!s above) |
&$00A0 |
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Zero Space Break |
&$200B |
Narrow No Break Space non-justifying non-breaking space (same as &!f above) |
&$202F |
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Zero Space No Break |
&$FEFF |
Em Space typically the width of a capital letter M |
&$2003 |
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Zero Width Non Joiner |
&$200C |
En Space half the width of an em space |
&$2002 |
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Zero Width Joiner |
&$200D |
Third Space one‑third the width of an em space |
&$2004 |
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Unicode Hyphen |
&$2010 |
Quarter Space one‑quarter the width of an em space |
&$2005 |
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No Break Hyphen (same as &!h above) |
&$2011 |
Sixth Space one‑sixth the width of an em space |
&$2006 |
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Discretionary Hyphen |
&$00AD |
Figure Space same width as a number |
&$2007 |
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Figure Dash |
&$2012 |
Punctuation Space same width as an exclamation point, period, or colon |
&$2008 |
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En Dash |
&$2013 |
Thin Space one-eighth the width of an em space, a good choice on either side of an em dash |
&$2009 |
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Em Dash |
&$2014 |
Hair Space one‑twenty‑fourth the width of an em space |
&$200A |
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Horizontal Bar |
&$2015 |
Flush Space adds a variable amount of space to the last line of a fully justified paragraph |
&$2001 |
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Markers in the Q++Studio User Interface
Most of the special character markers, displayed above cannot be previewed in the editor used to display holidays names, one-time-dates names, slogans text , GenTokens repeated text, or MonthHeader text, and therefore they are converted during diary generation by InDesign and/or QuarkXPress, and always appear as tokens in the Q++Studio user interface.
See also: QuarkXPress special character markers.
Topic 185810, last updated on 15-Dec-2022
