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Ricky, Les This is the question I asked RAE Team on 1st June : Could you please advise how superscripting/subscripting and other formatting options that are required for mathematical, chemical, biological terms and formulae should be dealt with in the submission. I am particularly thinking of publication titles. We could use a plain text version with all formatting stripped out ... but this is obviously not what the academics want ! Can we instead embed xhtml formatting tags (eg <sub>, <sup>, <i> etc) ? If so, will the report or interface that the panel members use render this data correctly ? I understand that there are a limited set of unicode superscript and subscript characters but I don't think this covers all possibilities .. For example High Field Study of Normal State Magneto-transport in Tl<sub>2</sub>Ba<sub>2</sub>CuO<sub>6+d</sub> where 6+d is subscripted. I can't find a UTF-8 encoding for subscript 'd' and the reply I received on the 2nd June from Jennifer Crook : text formatting is allowed in certain places in the submission data which includes the research output title in RA2 (the other areas are forms RA5). You will be able to embed XHTML formatting tags and these will be rendered correctly to panels. This should help you with mathematical formulae, etc. The set of tags you may use will be specified in the RAE 2008 data collection system documentation. Hope this helps Anna At 18:09 31/05/2006, rrankin wrote: >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 > > >__________________ >Ricky Rankin >Principal Analyst >Information Services >Queen's University Belfast > >Tel: 02890 974824 >Fax: 02890 976586 >email: [log in to unmask] > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >On Behalf Of Leslie Carr >Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 5:51 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >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. >-- >Les ___________________________________________________________________________ Anna Clements (Mrs) 01334 462761 [log in to unmask] Project Facilitator/Manager Business Improvements University of St Andrews