[thelist] special characters

rudy r937 at interlog.com
Fri Dec 15 07:15:16 CST 2000


>The only work around I could think of was to make the 2 smaller and put it
>in <sup> tags. This works but then throws your line spacing out if you are
>trying to line things up in columns.

hi lisa

that's a common complaint, but i think i have a solution

some people have tried adjusting things with css, but you gotta know that's
a lost cause

i used a stripey background image with horizontal single-pixel lines, like
the background image of the old evolt site (how's that for a plug) in order
to see if there was any effect on line height using the following technique

    cm<small><sup>2</sup></small>

and there wasn't

works fine but you have to go small before you go sup

for degrees i would use a lower case letter o

    C<small><sup>o</sup></small>

i know there are entities for both of these but i've heard that they are
not completely cross-browser


rudy.ca






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