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In article <m117n6A-000BP3C -at- mail -dot- GTS -dot- ORG>, John Cornellier
<cornelli -at- CLAMART -dot- SRPC -dot- SLB -dot- COM> wrote:
>Anyone know an HTML character entity for the square root sign? Has to work
>in NN4.
>
The official HTML character code is √, but whether NN4 will render
it correctly is left as an excercise to the reader. Even if the browser
renders it on your machine, the end user must have a font installed that
has the needed glyph.
Best bet is probably to screen capture the glyph and save it as a GIF.
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