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Original Usenet message from rec.arts.ascii, 18 May 1995.
Talk: ASCII into HTML

Talk: ASCII into HTML

In article <3p7fkf$9g...@miso.wwa.com>, bon...@prairienet.org (Bonni Hall) wrote:
>
>.... Is there a command in HTML which can be used to 
>tell the reader to disregard certain symbols for a while? Specifically, I 
>have some ASCII art I would like to use in HTML, and it has < used in it. 
>This, of course, causes the rendered version to go haywire. I do know 
>about the <pre> command and I think I've heard of a command to put the 
>font into a mono font (? or am I confused again? What is that command?), 
>and I'm pretty sure I've seen a reference somewhere for some sort of 
>command to tell the reader to disregard the < for a while, but I can't 
>seem to locate a reference for it.
>

There is an HTML "typewriter" formatting command:   <tt> (text here) </tt>   
which I believe puts the text into a mono-spaced font. I don't know whether 
the  <  would cause a problem though. I have heard (but haven't tried) that 
any link or command that the browser doesn't recognized will just show up as 
is, but it could cause some browsers to not be able to load the page.

A couple good sources for HTML info are:   http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/ 
  & the subdir.:  /html3/Contents.html   (Dave Ragett's home page - he's one 
of the html engineers with the Internet Engineering Task Force. The document 
in the subdir. is the whole html3.0 specification).

Also check out   http://www.mindspring.com/guild/   the HTML Writers Guild 
home page.


   ~  __,@
 ~  _`\ <._    Randy A. Wilson, New Washoe City, NV
~  (_)/  (_)   e-mail: ran...@frogpond.reno.nv.us

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Date: 1995/05/18
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