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Re: angle brackets(< >) and html. (was purpose of arrows)
Subject:Re: angle brackets(< >) and html. (was purpose of arrows) From:Scott McClare <smcclare -at- DY4 -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:43:04 -0400
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From: Keith Wolfe [SMTP:keith -at- MERGE -dot- COM]
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 2:50 PM
Subject: angle brackets(< >) and html. (was purpose of arrows)
>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?
There shouldn't be any need to change your convention. Could you not
search-and-replace the < and > symbols with the < and > entities,
respectively? Any properly HTML-compliant browser will convert these to
angle brackets.
Scott
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