Modern browsers support the display of special characters, such as the "degrees" symbol (°). There are a number of available characters.

Tag	Result		Tag	Result
\ch{->}	®		\ch{<-}	¬
\ch{/ |}	­		\ch{\ /}	¯
\ch{t}	†		\ch{tt}	‡
\ch{dot}	•		\ch{TM}	™
\ch{c}	©		\ch{<<}	«
\ch{R}	®		\ch{deg}	°
\ch{+-}	±		\ch{=/=}	¹
\ch{<>}	¹		\ch{int}	ò
\ch{:)}	J		\ch{:(}	L
\ch{:|}	K		\ch{mu}	µ
\ch{1/2}	½		\ch{>>}	»
\ch{A}	Å		\ch{/}	÷
\ch{nullset}	Ø		\ch{forall}	"
\ch{<=}	£		\ch{>=}	³
\ch{<->}	«		\ch{inf}	¥
\ch{= =}	º		\ch{del}	¶
\ch{DEL}	Ñ		\ch{=>}	Þ
\ch{therefore}	\		\ch{line}
\ch{br}	<BR> (HTML)		\ch{nbsp}	&nbsp; (HTML)

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

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.

Code	Result
\\	\
\{	{
\}	}
\,	,

Examples

• Mathematical Notation

• Hyperlinks

• Images, Attachments, and Clipart

• Tables and Lists

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Mathematical Notation

Tag	Description	Example Tag	Output
\sum{lower, upper}	Sum using sigma notation	\sum{i=1,10} i	Si=110 i
\int{lower, upper}	Definite Integral	\int{0,6} x dx	ò06 x dx

Example

Input:		\int{0,2\greek{p}} sin(x) dx = 0
Output:		ò02p sin(x) dx = 0

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Hyperlinks

Code	Description
\link{URL, text description}	Link to URL with text description
\topurl{URL, text description}	Link to URL in top frame with text description
\newurl{URL, text description}	Link to URL in new window with text description
\mail{address, text description}	"mailto" link to address with text description

Example

Input:		To learn more about this \green{FREE} discussion board program, visit the \topurl{http://mulliken.chem.hope.edu/discus,Discus Home Page}.
Output:		To learn more about this FREE discussion board program, visit the Discus Home Page.

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Images, Attachments, and Clipart

Tag	Description
\image{Text description}	Upon posting, you are prompted for an image file to upload. Images must be either GIF or JPEG format. Images must be saved on your hard disk. Your browser must support form-based file upload (Netscape Navigator 2.0+ and Internet Explorer 4.0+ support this; IE 3.02 will also work provided that you have installed the file upload patch).
\clipart{Clipart File Name}	Inserts clipart (see index)

Example

Input:		This is a picture of me: \image{my picture} and I smile like this: \clipart{smile}.
Output:		This is a picture of me: and I smile like this: . Note that the "Your Image Here" graphic is replaced by the image file that you upload.

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Tables and Lists

You can hand-enter tables or you can paste in tables directly from a tab-delimited spreadsheet (such as Microsoft Excel). See the "Pasting Tables" instructions if you are pasting a table directly from Excel.



Tag	Description
\table{Table Items}	Creates a table of the Table Items (table HAS a border)
\tablenb{Table Items}	Creates a table of the Table Items (table has NO border)
\list{List Items}	Creates a bulleted list of the List Items

Table Items and List Items

The Table Items are divided into columns by commas and into rows by newline characters (carriage returns). Thus, the entry \table{1,2,3} would create a table with three columns (with entries "1", "2", and "3").

The List Items are separated by newline characters (carriage returns). Each List Item is given a bullet.

See the examples for further explanation.

Pasting Tables

You can paste in tables from tab-delimited spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel. To paste a table, do the following:

• Open your spreadsheet using Excel.

• Select the range that you wish to paste as a table using Excel.

• Choose Edit and then Copy.

• Bring up your WWW browser.

• Enter an "empty" table tag (such as \table{ } or \tablenb{ }) in your message. Do not put in any Table Items at this time.

• Click the mouse between the curly braces in that tag.

• Select Edit and then Paste.

Examples

Input:		\table{X,O,X O,X O,,X}
Output:		X O X O X O   X
Input:		\list{List Item 1 List Item 2 List Item 3}
Output:		List Item 1 List Item 2 List Item 3
Input:		\table{1,2\ch{br}2.5,3 4,\ch{nbsp},6 7,8,9\,000}
Output:		1 2 2.5 3 4   6 7 8 9,000

• Not looking at the preview

The message preview shows your tags in action. If you look at it and your \b{Bold text} isn't bold, you have made a mistake!

• Using / instead of \ to start a tag

• /b{Bold text tag} is wrong

• \b{Bold text tag} is correct

• Using parentheses instead of curly braces

• \b(Bold text tag) is wrong

• \b{Bold text tag} is correct

• Using the wrong case in tags

• \B{Bold text tag} is wrong (\B{ } is not defined)

• \b{Bold text tag} is correct

• Not escaping commas where necessary

• Advanced tags use the comma to separate the various arguments. If you need to use a comma and not have it treated as a delimiter, you must escape the comma.

• See the discussion under "Special Characters" for further explanation and many examples.

• Putting spaces where they do not belong

• \ b{Bold text tag} is wrong (space between \ and b).

• \b {Bold text tag} is wrong (space between b and {).

• \b{Bold text tag} is correct.

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