Using emojis in Bookends

[Philologist]

A user in another thread asked whether, when using small caps for names, it would be possible to output the conjunction "and" in lowercase. The answer was no.

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I thought I had found a feasible solution to this problem when I clicked on the "Name Punctuation" button in the Formats Manager and entered an emoji in front of "and". I chose an emoji because it stands out, both in Bookends and in the text document.

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After scanning the document, a simple Nisus macro could easily fix "and".

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At first this seemed perfect. Then after I switched between formats a few times, a number of anomalies began to appear in Bookends. Even the columns in the Library window disappeared all but one. As soon as I removed the emoji, everything went immediately back to normal.

I use emojis extensively in Bookends' group and folder names. They not only spruce up the otherwise rather monotone gray interface, but they are also of great help when navigating a large number of groups. Country related references, for example, can be sorted into groups with corresponding flags. This is a great boon.

I have never, knock on wood, noticed any glitches in Bookends that can be traced to the use of emojis in group and folder names.

I wonder now if the integrity of emojis in Formats Manager could be enhanced?

[Jon]

Bookends stores styled text info internally as RTF. Emojis are relatively new and sone have been assigned Unicode code point values that Bookends can't handle properly (this is due to the framework, not something I can fix). So experiment with them and see which ones (if any) work for you.

Jon
Sonny Software