Symbol Script

Edit Symbol Templates, Script Button
or
Build Symbols, Script

Purpose

Creating Compound Symbols using Build Symbols is easy, but in some rare cases the available commands are not sufficient to create all the desired combinations of symbol items and parentheses or brackets.

Symbol Script allows you to edit the symbol definition as text using a special Symbol Script Syntax.

Steps

  1. In the Build Symbols dialog, choose Script.
    or
    In the Edit Symbol Templates dialog, choose the Script button to the left of the edit window.
  2. Edit the script by typing the appropriate commands. You can also cut, copy and paste text using the dialog's button bar and insert script commands as well as simple symbol names by choosing the Command and Symbol buttons, respectively.
  3. Choose Compile to translate the script to the actual symbol. If the script cannot be translated due to a syntax error, you will receive an error message.
  4. Choose Close.

See Also

Symbol Script Syntax