Personal Glossaries on the WWW

Appendix A: Technical Notes

Meta-section: Note

This appendix consists entirely of meta-discourse about the presentation of the article, not the topic of the article.

A.1 Tables Of Entity Translations

For the convenience of readers with non-conforming browsers, the following tables show the various entities that appear in the article. They are shown (in left-to-right order) first by name, then as rendered by the current browser. The third column describes the entity by its common name.

The tables are in the following order:

  1. Punctuation entities
  2. Miscellaneous Symbol entities
  3. Letter entities
  4. Whitespace entities
Table 1: Punctuation entities
entity appearance means
… … ellipsis (...)
“ “ left (opening) double quotation mark
— — full dash
– – short (range deliminating) dash
” ” right (closing) double quotation mark

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Table 2: Miscellaneous Symbol entities
entity appearance means
& & ampersand (aka and sign)
© © copyright symbol
> > greater-than symbol
&lt; < less-than symbol
&sect; § section symbol

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Table 3: Letter entities
entity appearance means
&aacute; á lowercase letter a with acute accent
&aelig; æ ligature of lowercase letters a and e
&Ccedil; Ç uppercase letter C with cedilla
&iuml; ï lowercase letter i with diaeresis (or umlaut)
&oslash; ø lowercase letter o with oblique stroke

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Table 4: Whitespace entities
(name and numeric values)
entity appearance means
&#160;   non-breaking space
&nbsp;   non-breaking space
 
&#8201;   thin space
&thinsp;   thin space

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