Character Formatting

Contents

1. Physical Styles
2. Logical Styles
3. Special Characters

• Physical vs. Logical Styles

  
  

  Physical Styles

  bold tex	<B>bold text</B>
  italicized tex	<I>italicized text</I>
  text in teletype font	<TT>text in teletype font</TT>
  size 7	<FONT SIZE=7>size 7</FONT>

  
  

  Logical Styles

  computer code	<CODE>computer code </CODE>
  This is a blockquote of text	This is a <BLOCKQUOTE> blockquote of text</BLOCKQUOTE>
  emphasized text	<EM>emphasized text</EM>
  strong text	<STRONG>strong text</STRONG>

  
  

• Special Characters

  The following are frequently used special characters.

  Character	HTML	Character	HTML
  <	&lt;	>	&gt;
  &	&amp;	"	&quot;
  è	&egrave;	é	&eacute;
  ê	&ecirc;	ë	&euml;

  The placement of accents on other characters is similar, e.g. ö displays as ö. An extensive list of special characters is available. The definitive list of special characters is available from the WWW consortium

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