Putting a not-equal sign on a page ....

J

joesplink

I have a web page with not-equal sign ... in the expression F <ne> MA
where the <ne> is an actual not-equal sign at

www.berkeleyscience.com/relativity.htm

Works fine for IE. However I just discovered it doesn't work for
Firefox.

How to get a not-equal sign that works for both ?

Use an image?

Here's what works for IE, I have no idea where I found this ...


<span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-
font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-
family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol'>¹</span></
span>

Firefox prints a ¹ instead of a not-equal sign.
 
N

Nik Coughlin

joesplink said:
I have a web page with not-equal sign ... in the expression F <ne> MA
where the <ne> is an actual not-equal sign at

www.berkeleyscience.com/relativity.htm

Works fine for IE. However I just discovered it doesn't work for
Firefox.

How to get a not-equal sign that works for both ?

Use an image?

Here's what works for IE, I have no idea where I found this ...


<span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Symbol;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-
font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-
family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Symbol'>¹</span></
span>

Firefox prints a ¹ instead of a not-equal sign.

That is IE only rubbish (in fact Microsoft Office rubbish, hence the MSO)

You want &ne;
 
J

joesplink

That is IE only rubbish (in fact Microsoft Office rubbish, hence the MSO)

You want &ne;- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

BONUS !

(Oh yeah, now I remember where I got that, I wrote a ne in MS word doc
and generated a htm file and copied)

Is there a list of such character generators ? In particular, I'm
interested in a 'partial derivative' symbol, which looks something
like a script d, you can see one on

www.berkeleyscience.com/waveeq.htm

There I used, with great inconvenience, an image imbedded in the line,
with the attendant hassels, it was such a headache that when I did

www.berkeleyscience.com/gr.htm

I just used a regular d, which is .... wrong.

Thanks for the tip!

Slide
 
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cwdjrxyz

BONUS !

(Oh yeah, now I remember where I got that, I wrote a ne in MS word doc
and generated a htm file and copied)

Is there a list of such character generators ? In particular, I'm
interested in a 'partial derivative' symbol, which looks something
like a script d, you can see one on

www.berkeleyscience.com/waveeq.htm

There I used, with great inconvenience, an image imbedded in the line,
with the attendant hassels, it was such a headache that when I did

www.berkeleyscience.com/gr.htm

I just used a regular d, which is .... wrong.

Thanks for the tip!

Slide

So far as I know, there is no "not equal" that will work on most
browsers. Some people use a small image in such a case. If you can not
find one you like using a Google search, it should be fairly easy to
make one using an image tool such as Paint Shop.

The "not equal" is often needed writing javascript code. In
javascript, "not equal" is written as "!=".
 
J

John Hosking

<sarcasm>Oh, I do love how Google includes its UI cues in GG users'
Is there a list of such character generators ? In particular, I'm
interested in a 'partial derivative' symbol, which looks something
like a script d, you can see one on

www.berkeleyscience.com/waveeq.htm

There I used, with great inconvenience, an image imbedded in the line,
with the attendant hassels, it was such a headache [...]

Perhaps you want &part;

Search the Web for /HTML entities/. See, among others, Wikipedia's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
and the W3C's own info for HTML 4.0 at
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/sgml/entities.html .

Read also Jukka Korpela's voluminous work at
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html (more useful than you might
think; skim, bookmark, revisit). You seem like a guy who'd want
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html#math on that same page.

HTH. GL.
 
J

JWS

Set the charset of your page to UTF-8 (a good idea anyway), and
use the UTF-8 character for 'not equal' (≠, a.k.a. U+2260).

If you have further mathematical ambitions, and want to show
partial derivatives, fractions, whatever, you could consider using
ASCIIMathML.js; see for an example my page

http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/bounce.html

(see, especially, the 'MATHML' box at the beginning).

Unfortunately this works (at the moment) only in Windows and in
Fedora's version of Firefox, not in other Linuces AFAIK (but I may
be wrong). Dunno about Mac.

Regards, Jan
 
J

joesplink

<sarcasm>Oh, I do love how Google includes its UI cues in GG users'
posts</sarcasm>


Is there a list of such character generators ? In particular, I'm
interested in a 'partial derivative' symbol, which looks something
like a script d, you can see one on

There I used, with great inconvenience, an image imbedded in the line,
with the attendant hassels, it was such a headache [...]

Perhaps you want &part;

Search the Web for /HTML entities/. See, among others, Wikipedia'shttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_re...
and the W3C's own info for HTML 4.0 athttp://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/sgml/entities.html.

Read also Jukka Korpela's voluminous work athttp://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html(more useful than you might
think; skim, bookmark, revisit). You seem like a guy who'd wanthttp://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html#mathon that same page.

HTH. GL.

Hey, I thought you were jokinig. Yep, &part; works.

Thanks,

Slide
www.berkeleyscience.com
 

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