[WEB4LIB] display of fractions

[Eric (Eric Rogers)]

Christy,

It looks like you are using FrontPage.  Are you using Insert -> Symbol?  If
so it looks like it is inserting the fraction as a single character and that
the Mac OS isn't translating it correctly.

If you look at the code you'll see 1/4 as a single character rather than the
HTML escape sequence or three separate characters (1, /, and 4).

Try inserting the escape sequence directly in the HTML code where you want
the browser to render the fraction  (1/4 = ¼)

See <http://www.bbsinc.com/symbol.html> for more escape sequences.


--
Eric Rogers
Internet Services Administrator, Kansas City Public Library
eric at kclibrary.org - http://www.kclibrary.org 



-----Original Message-----
From: cbickner at nypl.org [mailto:cbickner at nypl.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 12:13 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] display of fractions


     Has anyone ever had a display problem with fractions on web pages?  
     Some of our Mac users see ??? where 1/2 should be.  I can think of 
     some work arounds but want to know if anyone has seen this before.
     
     The page in question is:
     
     http://www.nypl.org/branch/bx/mo.html
     
     Carrie Bickner