Most Common Foreign Language Characters

Our professors whose names contain html entities:

• Krste Asanović
• Björn Hartmann
• Carlo Séquin

The HTML entities for these names are:

• Krste Asanović
• Björn Hartmann
• Carlo Séquin

Character entities start with an ampersand (&) and end with a semi-colon (;). The letter right after the ampersand is the letter which is being transformed (in the cases above "c," "o" and "e," respectively). The uml (umlaut) and acute specifies how it is being transformed.

Other Useful Symbols and Characters

The most commonly underused HTML entity is the ampersand. The correct way to write an ampersand in HTML is &. For example:

• L&S should be written: L&S

A very useful entity is the one that creates a non-breaking space. This can be used if you have a table that adjusts with the window size and you want a firstname and lastname to always appear on the same line. A non-breaking space is written  . For example:

• Jan Pardoe would be written: Jan Pardoe

To make footnotes, you can use the superscript tag <sup>. For example:

• Footnote^[1] would be written: Footnote^[1]

You can turn the 1 into a link that takes you to some text on the bottom of the page. To make a link to another paragraph on the same page, use a hash tag (#) in the URL followed by any word that you provide (in the example below, we're using: fn1). To mark the paragraph you're linking to, turn some of the text in it (in this case we're using the word One) into a URL, using <a name="fn1"> instead of <a href="fn1">

• Footnote^[1] would be written: Footnote^{[<a href="#fn1">1</a>]}
• The word One at the bottom of the page to which you're linking should be marked this way: <a name="fn1">One</a>.
  

For more symbols, see the HTML ISO-8859-1 Reference .

maggie@eecs
Tuesday, 03-Jul-2012 09:10:19 PDT