Wildcard

You can use the following wildcards and symbols as the basis for defining new sentence rules:

Wildcard	String	Function
\	0x000B	Vertical tab (soft return)
_	0x0000 0x0009 0x0020 0x000D 0x000A 0x000B 0x00A0	Bounding spaces: NULL character Horizontal tab Spaces Carriage return Line feed Vertical tab (soft return) No-break space
A	0x0041..0x005A 0x00C0..0x00DF	Upper case letters
a	0x0061..0x007A 0x00E0..0x00FF	Lower case letters
c	0x3000 0x3001 0x3003..0x9FF 0xF900..0xFAFF	Asian character sets
n	0x0030..0x0039 0xFF10..0xFF19	Single-digit numbers Multi-digit numbers can be represented by means of inserting placeholders several times.
W	0x0000 0x0009 0x0020 0x000D 0x000A 0x000B 0x00A0 0x0021..0x002D 0x002F 0x003A..0x0040 0x005B..0x005E 0x007B..0x007E 0x201C..0x201E 0x00AB 0x00BB	Extended white spaces (white spaces including characters such as: ~, >,·<,·%,·!,·?)·

Icon	Function
^	Introduces a wildcard. (Without a ^ character, the following character is interpreted as a normal character. Example: a represents the letter "a"; in contrast, ^a represents a wildcard "a".)
+	Defines a rule.
-	Defines a exception rule.

In addition to the existing wildcards, you can define further wildcards. To do this, click the Wildcards node in the language settings and then click Add. Define the name of the wildcard, e.g. T, and the character(s) (in the form of hexadecimal character strings) for which the wildcard is to be used (e.g. 0x0009 for a horizontal tab) and confirm with OK.

Tip

Please note that in the use and definition of wildcards, Across defines and interprets the ASCII characters that are replaced by wildcards according to the hexadecimal system. This means that the codes are expressed in characters (e.g. 0x000B for a tabulator). For further information, please consult the specialized literature or websites on this topic (for example, www.lookuptables.com).