Before, my smileys didn't work on Persona Paper. They just look like this :) and it won't turn into the real smiley. I had no idea what I was doing wrong.
I mean, doesn't this :) look like a smiley? That's always how I've done it, and, as far as I know, it always used to work (or maybe it really didn't? Who knows?).
Anyway, I didn't know how to get the :) to turn into a real smiley, so I just left it like that. But then I saw this post (http://www.personapaper.com/article/18621-can-you-answer-some-user-questions-please-) here on Persona Paper that was asking about the smiley thing too.
Reading the comments on that post, I saw the answers and learned what to do in order to make the smiley work.
I learned two methods. The first is this ":-)" (added the quotation marks, so this one won't turn into a real smiley) The dash - is what I've been missing. I only used :) without the - so that's why it didn't work. But if you add the dash, then it will work - like this :-).
I also learned that the frown works the same way. Before, I used :( but you're actually supposed to add the dash too, so it should look like this ":-(".
The second method is actually using the word smile, like this ":smile:". However, it doesn't work with the frown. At least, putting ":frown:" doesn't do anything. Maybe it's supposed to be another word?
Here are some of the comments from this article, back when it used to be posted elsewhere:
grandma20121 wrote on January 13, 2015, 1:06 PM:
"Hmm this is a really good thing to know but i am not so sure i have it down right yet, let me see you said to put it like this "smile" and it should show a smiley face?
"I hope this is right , it is something I have been trying to figure out too, also is there actually a spot on Persona Paper where you can get to the emotions icon?"
FreyaYuki replied to grandma20121 on January 14, 2015, 7:55 AM:
"You will need the colon (:) first : Then, you will need the dash (-) Lastly, you will need the parenthesis ( - this one for the frown and this one ) for the smile. So, it will look like this ":-)" and ":-("
"But don't add the quotation marks, it's just for illustration purposes. It should look like this :-) :-(. As far as I know, you will need to input the emoticon yourself depending on what you want (for example, the smiley or the sad face)."
LadyDuck wrote on June 20, 2015, 1:08 PM:
"I am glad you wrote this post, I was trying to find out how emoticons work in Persona Paper and searching with Google I found your post, thank you :-)"
Porcospino wrote on January 7, 2015, 6:24 PM:
"Outside Persona Paper I write a happy smiley this way: ":-)" I did the same thing on Persona Paper and the smiley showed up. I also used ";-)" and that turned into a smiley as well.
"There are other smileys but I don't remember how to use them so I just use :-) and ;-) (and frown which I just learned from your post)"
FreyaYuki replied to Porcospino on January 8, 2015, 12:23 PM:
"Outside Persona Paper, I write the smiley like this :) and the frown like this :( but it doesn't work here. I was missing the dash so to make a smiley and a frown emoticon here, it had to be like this :-) :-("
*Notes:
- Image is by OpenClipart-Vectors (Public Domain) from Pixabay
- This was previously published elsewhere
