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[Hillary Handwerger]

JUst came across this link while in Infoseek 

  These are math symbols including all lower case greek letters
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html3/mathsym.html

The higher level information on Ascii ISO 8859-1 entity tables is
http://www.infocom.net/~bbs/iso8859.html
 
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Hillary Handwerger
hillaryh at sme.org
Society of Manufacturing Engineers-- CoNDUIT Project
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On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Peter C. Gorman wrote:

> >Correct me if it's not correct but I think that we should say that HTML
> >became (or is becoming) an SGML DTD. That was not the case at it's
> >inception. That's why HTML contains so many "typographical" tags which
> >don't relate to the structure of the text but with the appearance of the
> >text on the screen.  And this is not the correct way of doing things in
> >SGML
> 
> It may violate the *spirit* of SGML, but I believe compliance is based more
> on the syntax than on the semantics of the markup. To quote the most
> current (though expired) HTML 3.0 specs:
> 
> "HTML is an application conforming to International Standard ISO 8879 --
> Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)."
> 
> Which means that they've structured the DTD to conform to the ISO standard
> for SGML DTDs. I'm an ardent believer in (and, hopefully, practitioner of)
> structural markup, but as long as <i> or <b> mind their syntactic manners
> they're valid SGML elements.
> 
> 
> PG
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> Peter C. Gorman
> Automation Help Desk
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> University of Wisconsin
> pcgorman at facstaff.wisc.edu
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