Microsoft Live Writer Plugins

Insert Symbol Plugin

Microsoft Live Writer currently has no method of easily inserting advanced typographic symbols. Luckily, they have a plugin architecture that allowed me to easily solve this problem.

Insert Symbol plugin allows users to insert em-dashes, en-dashes, fraction marks, curly quotes, and more.

Updated 2007-09-08: The plugin has been updated to work with the latest version of Live Writer (beta 3). Several new symbols have been added and it will now install into the new Live Writer plugin directory. Please uninstall the old version before installing the current one.

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Requirements

  1. Microsoft Live Writer (Beta 3+)
  2. Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework

Download and Installation

  1. Download the Insert Symbol Plugin (Version 0.2.0, 2007-09-08)
  2. Close Live Writer (if open)
  3. Run the MSI installer
  4. Launch Live Writer and select Insert Symbol from the Insert menu or task pane