Les,
Thanks
Yes it is how to encode mathematical expressions, chemical formula that
might be included in a Title or abstract.
However, I was hoping for some type of editor that would allow these to be
keyed in as I am not sure as to how html aware are users are
Ricky
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On Behalf Of Leslie Carr
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 5:51 PM
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Subject: Re: Special characters
On 31 May 2006, at 17:16, Anna Clements wrote:
> Use UTF-8 encoding.
> This is what RAE team are accepting in the submission also.
>
Is the issue also how to encode mathematical expressions, rather than just
the individual characters? These often appear in titles and abstracts, and
are sometimes rendered in latex, mathml or simple ASCII.
I don't know of guidance from HEFCE about how these are to be expressed -
the LongTitle element in the HEFCE XML schema is declared to be a sequence
of any XHTML elements, so you can at least use <sup> and <sub> for simple
names in the sciences.
I will ask my colleagues on the IRRA project to see if any further advice
(or at least best practice) is forthcoming.
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Les
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