Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: spelling differences
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Posted by bob on June 07, 2001 at 12:23:16:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: spelling differences posted by M. Arthur Auslander on June 07, 2001 at 10:06:12:
: I got the ® right on my screen but I don't understand the "escape". "Escape" is a generic computer term that means
telling the computer to stop interpreting things
the normal way for a while. In HTML, surrounding
something with an ampersand (&) and a semicolon (;) is a way of "escaping" to a
different way of interpreting the enclosed
text. Thus, "©" tells the browser
to insert a copyright symbol (©) rather
than the word "copy". However, since the
ampersand has a special meaning like this,
it makes it harder to simply type an ampersand
into the text. This is done by "escaping the
escape symbol", in this case using the construct
&. I'm sure you can imagine that it
is a bit tricky to get the string & to
show up in the text -- basically I have to
type & -- and to get *that* to
print, I had to type & ... :-)
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