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The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;
SGML derived the use from IBM Generalized Markup Language, which was one of many IBM-mainframe languages to use the ampersand to signal a text substitution, eventually going back to System/360 macro assembly language. In the plain TeX markup language, the ampersand is used to mark tabstops. The ampersand itself can be applied in TeX with \&.
special characters that are not available in the limited character set are stored in the form of a multi-character code; there are usually two or three equivalent representations, e.g. for the character € the named character reference € and the decimal character reference € and the hexadecimal character reference €. The edit ...
For example, the character é (Small e with acute accent, HTML entity code é) can be obtained by pressing Alt+1 3 0. First press the Alt key (and keep it depressed) with your left hand, then press the digit keys 1, 3, 0, in sequence, one by one, in the right-side numeric keypad part of the keyboard, then release the Alt key.
"Use of the ampersand & and": a discussion on Blogdorf about the use of the ampersand. It might well be usefull to expand on when and where the use of & is tolerated in formal use such as academic works and essays — Preceding unsigned comment added by Empty hat ( talk • contribs ) 03:42, 5 June 2007 (UTC) [ reply ]
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Use the editor menu to change your font, font color, add hyperlinks, images and more. 1. Launch AOL Desktop Gold. 2. Sign on with your username and password. 3. Click the Write icon at the top of the window. 4. Click a button or its drop-down arrow (from left to right): • Select a font. • Change font size. • Bold font. • Italicize font.
Use of italics should conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Italic type. Do not use articles (a, an, or the) as the first word (Economy of the Second Empire, not The economy of the Second Empire), unless it is an inseparable part of a name (The Hague) or of the title of a work (A Clockwork Orange, The Simpsons).