Special Characters
Modern browsers support the display of special characters, such as the "degrees" symbol (°). There are a number of available characters.
Greek Characters
The "Symbol" font, supported on Windows platforms, allows the incorporation of Greek characters which is especially useful for mathematical notation in many scientific disciplines. The following table gives available Greek characters in groups of 5.
Tag
Result
Tag
Result
\greek{abcde}
abcde
\greek{ABCDE}
ABCDE
\greek{fghij}
fghij
\greek{FGHIJ}
FGHIJ
\greek{klmno}
klmno
\greek{KLMNO}
KLMNO
\greek{pqrst}
pqrst
\greek{PQRST}
PQRST
\greek{uvwxyz}
uvwxyz
\greek{UVWXYZ}
UVWXYZ
Escaping Special Characters
Backslashes, and curly braces have special meanings to the interpreter. If you wish to use these characters as text within a tag, you must "escape" them as with a backslash. Additionally, when you are using a tag that requires 2 or more arguments and you want to include a comma within the arguments (and not have it interpreted as a separator), you must escape it with a backslash. See the examples.
