It worked for you, for two out of three letters. I see the alpha and upsilon. You picked an awfully obscure one to start with (hadn't the digamma fallen out of use by Homer's time?). Admittedly it'd be nice if the HTML tokens were that thorough, but I'm not surprised they left that one out. (I wonder whether there's a Unicode value for it.)
You have to specify σ for an internal sigma or ς for a terminal sigma.
Well I was trying to type "wow" and υαυ just didn't seem to cut it and trying the digamma was just an additonal test I could do at the same time. Now I wonder if there are other easter egg characters one can print with &, such as thorn þ
Thorn and eth, IIRC, but not yogh. (In fact, when I was attempting to typeset a song, I either couldn't yogh in Unicode at all or I couldn't find it in the fonts I have; I forget which. I wound up using '3' in place of it.
Note BTW that these tokens are case sensitive: you can write an uppercase &Thorn;orn with &Thorn; -- similarly for the Greek letters.
Huh. In the comment where I say it works, it fails. Odd and upsetting. :-(
þ Þ ð Ð σ Σ
Hmm.
Got it: For the OE/ME/Danish characters you capitalize the entire token: Þ -- but for the Greek you only capitalize the first letter: Σ (an onfortunate inconsistency. *pout*)
using google(html &epsilon &alpha þ), I found this printer friendly link: http://www.creationguide.com/characters/index.html It seems to me to support most west european writing and math (including set notation). I noticed that there is a sequence for the euro "&euro" € so they must be updating this list of special characters from time to time :) Thanx for showing off your html skills and explaining them afterwards ^_^
it worked, this feature seems rather low level so I suspect it's a feature of HTML 1 or 2 mebbe. I will have to see if googling will turn up an exhaustive listing. ^_^
Re: how do you do that?
did you or the interpreter know to pick the proper sigmas?
hmm doesn't seem to work for me
Re: how do you do that?
You have to specify σ for an internal sigma or ς for a terminal sigma.
Re: how do you do that?
Re: how do you do that?
Note BTW that these tokens are case sensitive: you can write an uppercase &Thorn;orn with &Thorn; -- similarly for the Greek letters.
Re: how do you do that?
þ Þ ð Ð σ Σ
Hmm.
Got it: For the OE/ME/Danish characters you capitalize the entire token:
Þ -- but for the Greek you only capitalize the first letter: Σ (an onfortunate inconsistency. *pout*)
Re: how do you do that?
son of a gun