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When you need to make copies of a text object in an Adobe Illustrator document, the program offers multiple methods through which to create your duplicates. Which method you select depends on whether you want to duplicate a type object exactly as it appears or just copy the text it contains, as well as whether you're duplicating type within one file or from one document to another. These procedures can speed the creation of business illustrations such as maps and diagrams with type that must appear in the same size and style at various locations in a document.
Copy and Paste Text
1.Activate the Type tool in the Adobe Illustrator toolbox. Click once on a type object to activate a type cursor in it.
2.Press 'Ctrl-A' to select all the text in your type object. Press 'Ctrl-C' to copy it to the clipboard.
3.Ctrl-click on the artboard to deselect your original type object. Click, or click and drag, anywhere on the artboard to create a new point- or area-type object.
4.Press 'Ctrl-V' to paste the copied text into the new type object you created. The pasted text uses the same typeface, size, style, leading, kerning, tracking, horizontal and vertical scaling, baseline shift and character rotation as the original text. However, if you copy from an area-type object and paste into a point-type object, the new type will run as one continuous line until it reaches a carriage return, whereas the original area-type object breaks into individual lines when it reaches the edge of its bounding box.
Copy and Paste Type Objects
1.Activate the Selection tool in the Adobe Illustrator toolbox. Click once on a point- or area-type object to select it.
2.Press 'Ctrl-C' to copy your type object. Press 'Ctrl-V' to paste in a duplicate of the object in the center of your screen, or switch to another document and paste the duplicate there. The pasted object looks exactly like the original.
3.Move the duplicate type object to a new location on your artboard. Click on a blank area of the artboard to deselect the duplicate object.
Drag and Duplicate
1.Activate the Selection tool in the Adobe Illustrator toolbox. Click once on a point- or area-type object to select it.
2.Hold down the 'Alt' key and drag the selected type object. Add the 'Shift' key to constrain the direction in which you drag to a 90-degree horizontal or vertical direction. Adobe Illustrator creates a duplicate of the object and deposits it at the point at which you stop dragging.
3.Alt-drag the duplicate to create another copy. Continue this procedure until you build as many duplicates as you need.
Transform Panel
1.Open the 'Window' menu and choose 'Transform' to reveal the Transform Panel. Activate the Selection tool in the Adobe Illustrator toolbox. Click once on a point- or area-type object to select it.
2.Click on the identifier in front of the X- or Y-value entry field. Illustrator highlights the entire value so you can enter a new dimension.
3.Type in a new X- or Y-coordinate value in the Transform panel. Hold down the 'Alt' key as you press the 'Enter' key to create a duplicate rather than move the original object. To override the unit of measure you're using in your document, you can enter a numeric value followed by the abbreviation for a measurement unit, such as 'in' for inches or 'pt' for points. Adobe Illustrator creates a duplicate type object at the new coordinate you specified and leaves the original in place.
Tips
- Use 'Ctrl-F' for Paste in Front and 'Ctrl-B' for Paste in Back. These two commands place a duplicate object in front of or behind the rest of the objects already on your artboard.
- Illustrator immediately moves an object when you change its X or Y coordinate in the Transform panel and either click in the other coordinate's value field or use the 'Tab' key to switch to it. To duplicate a type object to a new location with different X and Y coordinates from the original object's location, change one value and press 'Alt-Enter.' Edit the other value after you create your duplicate.
- If you paste text you copied in Illustrator into another application, you may get only the text content and not its formatting.
Warning
- Use the Transform panel to move duplicate objects into precise positions. Moving type by eye produces less precise results.
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dash instead of minus sign produced by math tag[edit]
See minus sign and 5 − 3 = 2 versus . It also produces text that is too small. --Espoo (talk) 16:24, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Espoo: (I fixed the weird horrible error; it was from a badly placed tag in the previous section header). I don't understand what you're referring to though. What's too small? What are we supposed to be seeing at minus sign? –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 16:33, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks! The text '5 - 3 = 2' is too small in the second example, and its minus sign is much too long. --Espoo (talk) 16:38, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
- It looks fine to me. It could be related to your math display settings. Look under Preferences → Appearance → Math, and see if changing to 'PNG images' helps. Does any other rendered math look weird? If that doesn't help, can you post a screenshot of how it appears to you? –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 16:43, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
- That's very weird because the minus sign looks like a dash (even with png now), which is easily misread as 'from a to b', on both my android smartphone and windows PC. I'll attach screenshots soon and would be grateful for your screenshot too. --Espoo (talk) 16:55, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
- It looks fine to me. It could be related to your math display settings. Look under Preferences → Appearance → Math, and see if changing to 'PNG images' helps. Does any other rendered math look weird? If that doesn't help, can you post a screenshot of how it appears to you? –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 16:43, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks! The text '5 - 3 = 2' is too small in the second example, and its minus sign is much too long. --Espoo (talk) 16:38, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
Some issues[edit]
mathbf
, mathit
and mathsf
do not work on Greek letters that are defined as a Latin letter in roman type, e.g., mathitAlpha
() is displayed as an upright letter. While mbox{a}
and text{a}
do work, mbox a
and text a
do not. Support for upright Greek small letters seems to be missing in general, though at least text{µ}
(using U+00B5 rather than U+03BC) works: . omicron
( – should be italic!) and varcoppa
() are displayed wrongly.Also note that
oiint
(), oiiint
( – another try: ) and are displayed with an upright integral symbol while, e.g., int
() and oint
() are not. It would be great to have both variants (upright, slanted); the upright version fits to the practice of writing (→ ISO 80000-2:2009) instead of . -- IvanP (talk) 15:18, 4 April 2019 (UTC)RfC on <chem>[edit]
What is <chem>: a recommended device or an obscure hack?
- Should opinions of the “chemical” community in en.Wikipedia on
<chem>...</chem>
be mentioned here? I’m sure it is an important guidance for a help page in the English Wikipedia. The user Deacon Vorbis wages an edit war over it. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 16:24, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
- Funny how it's always only the other person waging the edit war and never oneself. In any case, if something needs to be updated here in order to reflect common practice, that's fine. Your first two additions were completely inappropriate talking about edit warring and aspersions. Since you used an undo, I missed that the third had changed wording. But there's still a problem that you're basing a fairly substantial change off of something that one person said in response to an incomprehensible post on the chemistry wikiproject talk page. Without wider input, it's hard to know what to even make of it. So again, if something needs to be updated here, then you should coordinate with people who maintain chem articles and make sure what current practice really is. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 16:54, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
- Even so, there is also a concern I have about WP:CONLEVEL. --Izno (talk) 14:22, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
- Can Izno please speak more specifically and less elitistic? Proponents of <chem> may come here :_an_AI_for_people_having_structureless_mind'>and there and argue against me and Graeme. But the use of <chem> is controversial – this is currently a reality of en.Wikipedia which has to be documented. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 14:36, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
- By the way, we see the RfC sabotaged by Deacon_Vorbis while the same Deacon_Vorbis vocally calls for “coordination with people who maintain chem articles”. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 14:50, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
- Even so, there is also a concern I have about WP:CONLEVEL. --Izno (talk) 14:22, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
- Anyway the edit by Deacon_Vorbis indicates that there should be a discussion before, so that at least the scope and options for the RFC can be determined. I have a few issues with <chem>. Firstly issues for our readers, that it cannot be copied and pasted cleanly from a screen. There is a heap of extra text attached to the copy. Similarly searching on a page or on the Wikipedia search box may not find the formula due to extraneous inclusions. The third issue is for our editors who need to learn a lot before being able to use the <chem> tag properly. There are also the chem and chem2 templates which may have similar problems or reduced problems. I normally use sub and sup tags, and I sometimes use a template that merges them together. One feature that I dont know how to get is a line over the top that joins to a symbol at each end in order to illustrate a ring closure in a linear formula. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:58, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
- @Graeme Bartlett:I defer to any solution by the “chemical community” which will deter wrecking and censorship. Specific formulation for preferences for <chem> and the templates are not of great importance. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 13:11, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
- This statement is indicating drama and interpersonal problems. I will note that Deacon Vorbis removed your statement about yourself. If people are misbehaving and cannot be resolved by a civil discussion then there is a special drama board: WP:AN/I. So lets have a discussion of the use of the chem tag, and how it should be described on this help page first. In this discussion just discuss the topic and not the users. That will avoid stepping into the next level. It seems that this section has already upset two people. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:27, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
- Again, there may be discussions on <chem> and arguments in defence of it at least for certain special applications. But its shortages indicate that—in conditions where {{chem2}} performs well—the current implementation of <chem> is controversial at best and detrimental at worst. Not all help-page readers are expected to understand what exactly means controversial, hence it would be better to suggest: to avoid trouble, don’t push <chem> boldly. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 22:36, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
- @Graeme Bartlett:I defer to any solution by the “chemical community” which will deter wrecking and censorship. Specific formulation for preferences for <chem> and the templates are not of great importance. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 13:11, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
- @Incnis Mrsi: For crying out loud; since I caught it fairly quickly, I've again removed the RfC tag as hopelessly prejudicially worded. In case you didn't read WP:RFCBRIEF, which I had initially pointed out when I objected to the RfC wording,
'Statements should be neutral and brief'
; accusing another editor (me, in this case) of edit warring in the statement is not neutral (specific editors and/or their positions shouldn't even be mentioned). Referring to something as 'an obscure hack' is not neutral (unless that's the specific text you're trying to add or change). Ideally, write it without any extraneous markup, and put it in a new section as well; you can refer to this thread for previous background discussion if you want. It should also be specific enough for other editors to have a basic idea of what you're asking. I've been semi-involved in this, and even I don't know what you're asking from the RfC statement. Please seek assistance on the RfC wording before placing a new one; I'd be happy to review it, although I wouldn't blame you if you didn't trust me to. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 12:38, 14 August 2019 (UTC)- The statement proper occupies one <div align=center> – it is brief. Is this the guideline against calling the present situation “edit warring”? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 13:47, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
Alternative text does not work as described[edit]
Hello!The section Help:Displaying_a_formula#Rendering gives instructions on how to create an alternative text that can be used to make a formula accessible by using screen readers. However, it does not work. The example given is the code
<math alt='Square root of pi'>sqrt{pi}</math>
which generates an image which should display the alt textSquare root of pi
, but actually displays the TeX code to create the image, i.e.: {sqrt {pi }}
. --Lpd-Lbr (talk) 09:21, 17 September 2019 (UTC)- Since this seems quite unresolved, I have issued a bug report at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233121
- I think this might be by design. A mathematically inclined blind reader may well be able to interpret latex, there might even be screen readers which can cope with it. For a simple formula like sqrt(pi) an alt text might be fine, but a more complex integral might be hard to give an accurate representation of the formula. Still, I do think an explicitly specified should override the default one. --Salix alba (talk): 18:23, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
- I think that the Help page should convey accurate and true technical information. I feel that I lack the necessary scope and expertise to correct it, as the information exists across multiple projects (including mediawiki) and seems to be centrally coordinated. I believe that discussions on accessibility are best done at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Accessibility. --Lpd-Lbr (talk) 18:52, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
Transfer from .tex document[edit]
A colleague has sent me some LaTeX, in a .tex document. What's the best way to get this onto a wiki page, preserving the markup? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:42, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
- @Pigsonthewing: Can you be a bit more specific about what you're trying to do? Is it purely text? Is it just a few equations you're trying to transfer? In any case, it will likely take some manual conversion. Someone writing a tex document is likely going to have at least a little bit of custom commands that they're using, which can't be used here. Mediawiki also doesn't use 'real' TeX; it uses TexVC, which only implements a limited subset of math typesetting commands. If they're using anything that's not supported, then some decisions will have to be made about what you want to do. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 01:32, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
- I've been asked to recarte a series of PDF worksheets - including those on http://sigma.coventry.ac.uk/calculus - on a MediaWiki install. I've been sent the source document from which one of the PDFs, 'C9 - Integration by Parts', was generated, to convert as a trial. I'm hoping we can make them available under an open licence. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:55, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
- The way the worksheets are formatted into boxes like that is going to require some manual work to get started. I'd think you could set a template or two up for that and just mostly copy the text over. The equations could hopefully be mostly copied wholesale, but there's still some formatting to do, like changing
$$...$$
to<math>...</math>
. You might want to see if mw:Extension:MathJax would be suitable and helpful, though, as well. But again, any custom macros/environments in the .tex source will probably have to be dealt with manually as well. There might be some back-end magic for adding that in, but that's beyond what I know. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 20:09, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
- The way the worksheets are formatted into boxes like that is going to require some manual work to get started. I'd think you could set a template or two up for that and just mostly copy the text over. The equations could hopefully be mostly copied wholesale, but there's still some formatting to do, like changing
- I've been asked to recarte a series of PDF worksheets - including those on http://sigma.coventry.ac.uk/calculus - on a MediaWiki install. I've been sent the source document from which one of the PDFs, 'C9 - Integration by Parts', was generated, to convert as a trial. I'm hoping we can make them available under an open licence. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:55, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
Template[edit]
[Unrelated to my above query]
This page shows markup like:
<math qid=Q35875>E=mc^2</math>
Do we have a template, that would let the markup be entered in the form of:
{{Foobar |formula=E=mc^2 |qid=Q35875 }}
or even:
{{Foobar|E=mc^2|Q35875}}
If not, I plan to make one. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:00, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
- Be aware that adding templates for basic wikitext like math means VisualEditor cannot edit them inline. --Izno (talk) 14:45, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
- Then that's a bug in VE (such templates predate VE by many years). Is there an existing ticket? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:01, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
- It's not a bug, but I'm not going to argue with you about it. I'm just letting you know that that is the case. As for templates, did you try {{math}} or look around related categories? --Izno (talk) 15:26, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
- Then that's a bug in VE (such templates predate VE by many years). Is there an existing ticket? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:01, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
- There's
{{tmath}}
, but it's hardly ever used, so I'm not sure if it would be worth the trouble. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 19:58, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
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