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I want to include some technical articles on my Web site, but Im having difficulty replicating the Greek letters that appear in equations. What can I do to create these characters?
The HTML 3.2 specifications include support for the tag for enclosing mathematical equations. Until the leading browsers include more support for this tag, though, you’re pretty much on your own. The ISO-Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) character set supported by most browsers includes hardly any Greek letters, so don’t expect much from its list of codes for special characters. You’ll find character codes for a Greek beta (ß) and mu (µ), but that’s about it. A completely HTML-based solution will require support for multiple character sets, and that may be a ways off for some platforms. There are a couple of workarounds using small inline graphics you could try. If you used LaTeX to write your technical articles, there is a latex2html converter that will convert most LaTeX documents to HTML documents and will convert any math equations or tables into individual inline figures. I also recommend you look for online resources for transparent GIFs of the Greek alphabet, such as the excellent col
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