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Hey, now that we’re done with the upgrade, how 'bout adding this & the OP in the Special Characters thread to the reference section?
Sue from El Paso
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
Piece of <font face=“symbol”>p</font>.
Of course, the key code from Tom’s OP is Alt+0248, for the møøse credits.
<font size=1>test</font>
<font size=2>test</font>
<font size=3>test</font>
<font size=4>test</font>
<font size=5>test</font>
<font size=6>test</font>
Gone, but not forgotten.
Thanks for bumping this, Tom. I’ve wanted something like this.
Test
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So what happened to the Reference Section? Was that lost in the Great Conversion? Or have I been missing something all this time?
Lost in the conversion, we’re gonna redo the FAQ soon.
I’ll add this in as well.
your humble TubaDiva
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We can get fünný çhåracters nowadays by cøpying from the “Chârãcter Map” that’s under Start-Programs-Accessories on most PCs.
You can get just about any §¥¢ƒ‡¿¡©! character you want.
But Greek letters and mathematical symbols don’t seem to survive the transition to this board. Anybody got any suggestions there?
Greek letters etcetera don’t work from charmap because when you look at the character for, say, pi, in charmap, you’re not actually looking at the character for “pi”, you’re looking at the character for “p” in symbol font. You can find a character that really is “pi” up in the Unicode section of charmap, but most web browsers, and likely the message board software as well, don’t support Unicode.
Symbol font (and possibly wingdings as well) is one option I would really love to see a code for on this board, but realistically, the priority for that is probably low enough that we’ll never see it.
Wingdings, if it’s ever supported, might be as effective as ROT-13 at protecting our spoilers. Just enough obfuscation to prevent reading by those who don’t want to see, easy enough to break even an utter newbie can be taught how in one post.
Chron-dude, fountain of good ideas that should happen, but probably won’t.
Enabling symbol text should not be hard. Just like enabling superscript and subscript, the necessary vB tags and their corresponding html tags can be set up in a couple minutes from the vBulletin Control Panel. And it wouldn’t even really be modifying the software, which would annoy the Chicago Reader. I can understand the couple thousand more pressing things, but it would be nice if you could sneak this in during a free minute.
Hmm, this reminds me, closing a “sup” tag should be the same as closing a “sub” tag. Let’s see:
This is normal, [sub]but this is subscript[/sup] normal again [sup]and finally, superscript[/sub].
Guess not. Oh well.
Methinks, waterj2 that sub and sup work thusly:
sub = make subsequent text LOWER, and size = small
/sub = make subsequent text HIGHER, and size = large
sup = make subsequent text HIGHER, and size = small
/sup = make subsequent text LOWER, and size = large
so that the “/sup” is NOT equivalent to a “/sub” because “/sup” is “lower text position”, not “restore text position.”
You can use this to make text of different sizes in different places:
text[sup]superscript[sup]super-superscript[sup]super-super-superscript[/sup][/sup][/sup]
or, if you want: text[/sub]higher text[/sub]even higher text[/sup][/sup]
or even[/sub]up[/sub]up[sup]and away (in tiny letters)[/sup]in my beautiful[sub]beautiful**[/sup]B[/sup]A[/sup]L[/sup]L[/sup]O[/sup]O[/sup]N **[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]
Of course, you have to deal with sans sefif-to-serif font change.
I don’t know waterj2. I’m not an HTML expert but to allow the Symbol font I would think you need to allow the <font> HTML tag, and once you allow that how would you restrict people to only using Symbol at a “reasonable” font size?
[Edited by Arnold Winkelried on 03-01-2001 at 03:28 PM]
zut - The cascading super/sub is cool. Now I have to find an excuse to use it. There must be a few theorems involving 2[sup]2[sup]n[/sup][/sup] 
But the “higher text” trick only works if you’re viewing with Netscape. With IE5 there is no effect at all.
Arnold, what Waterj2 is looking for is something like:
[sym] vB code = <font face=“symbol”> HTML tag
[/sym] vB code = </font> HTML tag
So you would type: [sym]symbols stuff[/sym]
and it would be translated to: <font face=“symbol”>symbols stuff</font>
You couldn’t add any other parameters to the <font> tag. However, using the [****/sym] without the opening tag might lead to an undocumented “feature”.
Jim
I tried an unmated </font> tag here at the FFFMB:
http://fff.fathom.org/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000222.html
It just disappeared, with no averse effects farther down. I’ll be trying more devious tricks (but perhaps not there).
On the FFFMB, an unmated <font face=“symbol”> tag only affects the rest of your post, not any of the posts below. Kinda like an unmated “b” tag here, 'cept different.