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How do you introduce left and right angle brackets into your text?
Submitted by BruceCyr on Thu, 07/07/2005 - 21:54.
When I introduce one, all the remaining text will not appear. And if I introduce a matched pair, i.e., left and right, they and the text in between vanishes. I think it has to do with the fact that these symbols are used for imbedding HTML formating commands, which Drupal apparently understands, but I don't know anything about HTML.
Bruce
Re: How do you introduce left and right angle brackets into your
Hi Bruce,
When I introduce one, all the remaining text will not appear. And if I introduce a matched pair, i.e., left and right, they and the text in between vanishes. I think it has to do with the fact that these symbols are used for imbedding HTML formating commands, which Drupal apparently understands, but I don't know anything about HTML.
Bruce
You can use ampersand-sign gt; and ampersand-sign lt; for these (which is a real pain, i.e. justified another command). There are 4 characters & g t ; without spaces but including the semicolon. < :->
Jean-Marc
Re: How do you introduce left and right angle brackets into your
Thanks, Skip and Jean-Marc, for setting me in the know regarding how to write the left (<) and right (>) angle bracket.
I know its bad form merely to thank someone for help, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to test my new-fangled learning
Bruce
PS: Good thing I did try, because it took me three tries before I got it right! Seems to me this is how I had to learn to write APL before the computer lab got the right terminals and/or type elements.
It's all in the filtering.
The system does filtering on the input material to verify that it's not harmful to the site (think trojan horse here or worse). When I set it up, I limited what html code I wanted in messages. That's shown below the composing area for reference. The < and > are the beginning and end of many html codes.
If you want a less than symbol (Left angle bracket), use < that's an & then lt then a semicolon
If you want a greater than symbol (Right angle bracket), use > that's an & then gt then a semicolon
You can see all these 'commands' by looking in the compose tips in the menu. I have this particular entry set to open a new window so you might peruse it separately if desired.
<strong>Compose Tips</strong>
Oh! I missed this the first time through. This is useful for newbies like me. Its a snap to turn these into macros. In fact, they can be done as Text/Graphic macros so that Preferred users can easily use HTML codes.
For example, I went in to my Global Grammar in the Command Browser and clicked on New to create a Text and Graphics macro. In MyCommand Name: I dictated "Open Strong Tag", and in the Content box, I entered:
<strong>
I also created "Close Strong Tag":
</strong>
As you can see, they work just fine in the body of the text, but not so good in the Subject line!
On second thought, I might actually give them the names "Strong Tag Open"and "Strong Tag Close" so that they will show up together in the in the Command Browser.
On third thought, I'll probably do all of them in scripts for convenience, but I think it's useful to point out that can be done by Preferred users.
Bruce
The <code> tag only works until the next blank line?
To continue with the tag questions, it seems that the <code> only works while lines are contiguous?
Jean-Marc
Don't worry.
I can't get it to work right either and that doesn't make me happy.