Default block formatting
Default inline formatting
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Basic special symbols
| Description | Format | Result | HTML |
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| Greater-than sign | > | > | > |
| Less-than sign | < | < | < |
| Ampersand | & | & | & |
Special symbols
| Description | Format | Result | HTML |
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| Horizontal ellipsis = three dot leader
| text... | text… | text… |
| Em dash
| text --- text | text — text | text — text |
| En dash
| text -- text | text – text | text – text |
| Single quot
| 'text' | ’text’ | ’text’ |
| Double quot
| "text" | “text” | “text” |
| Trade mark sign
| text(TM) | text™ | text™ |
| Number sign
| (No)1 | № 1 | № 1 |
| No-break space = non-breaking space
| ()
text()()()()text
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text text
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text text |
| Plus-minus sign = plus-or-minus sign
| +/- | ± | ± |
(?) special symbols
Parser recognize “(?)” sequence (where “?” is any character) as a special
sequence. Treatement of this sequence (as well as all other special elements)
depends completly on the user’s listener code. For XHTML formatter the following
transformations are defined:
| Description | Format | Result | HTML |
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| Degree sign
| (o) | ° | ° |
| Copyright sign
| (C) | © | © |
| Registered trade mark sign
| (R) | ® | ® |
| Euro sign
| (E) | € | € |
HTML special symbols
| “&(code)” syntax | “&code;” syntax | Result | HTML |
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| &(alpha) | α | α | α |
| &(beta) | β | β | β |
| &(gamma) | γ | γ | γ |
| &(larr) | ← | ← | ← |
| &(rarr) | → | → | → |
| &(uarr) | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ |
| &(darr) | ↓ | ↓ | ↓ |
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for more symbols - see
“Character entity references»” |
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