Tony Firshman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > P Witte wrote: > >> Laurence Reeves writes: >> >>> NB. The "simeq" that appears in various places in the above page is, I >>> feel, supposed to be "asymptotically equal to" which is "≃". It >>> should maybe be "≃", but as the page doesn't even have a DOCTYPE, >>> and is full of other html bugs, this didn't work in my SeaMonkey. >>> >> ≃ doesnt parse at all in IE7. Ive no idea what he means. >> >> > html entities. > > He means ≈ which works: > http://www.firshman.co.uk/temp/asymp.htm > > I doesn't mean "asymp". I doodn't means "cong" (another entity) eithers. I means'es "sime", which is I think suppos'sed'es to be what the "simeq" (a non-HTML entity) on the page was all about.
The "asymp" is two wavy lines, one above the other. The "cong" is an equals sign, plus a third, wavy line above the two straight ones. The "sime" is one wavy line above one straight line. W3C does define "sime" as an entity in the MathML DTD. .... Curiously... I tried to upload an example of ≃ on a MathML page to my website. I don't quite understand this, but Pipex will let me up/download pages called "sime.xhtml", but for some reason, they block them from being fetched (I get a 404 error). Weirder yet, when I call it "sime.html", SeaMonkey fetches it, but then fails to display the thing properly - even though "View Source" shows source identical to the "sime.xhtml" file I'm viewing locally. So... if anyone cares: <http://www.bergbland.info/sime.xhtml> you probably can't read (although, curiouser and curiouser, I /can/ "wget" it), and <http://www.bergbland.info/sime.html> probably displays wrong. However, if you can save the source, then rename it to "sime.xhtml", then view it, maybe... _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
