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angle brackets(< >) and html. (was purpose of arrows)
Subject:angle brackets(< >) and html. (was purpose of arrows) From:Keith Wolfe <keith -at- MERGE -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:50:10 -0600
Earlier, in regards to use of arrows in procedures, I wrote:
Does anybody know if this method (single ">") creates a problem
with HTML conversion?
David Brown Responded:
> Yes, but no worse than any other use of left or right angle brackets,
> which are interpreted as tag delimiters. The strings "<!--" and "-->"
> are a special case (not really an exception): they begin and end
> comment blocks.
So how do you work around this problem? We've thought of using a pipe ( | ) to
eliminate wordy sentences. We accompany this with a blurb in the conventions
section. My question to you is this:
Is there an easier way to connote action while avoiding any pitfalls if
converting text with angle brackets (< >) to HTML?
My apologies for hanging on to an otherwise dying topic.
