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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 22:25:20 -0700
From: "TJ O'Donnell" <tjbear@home.com>
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You can use HTML "character entities" such as
&alpha; &beta; &gamma;  and
&Alpha; &Beta; &Gamma;  etc.
Most browsers will render these properly, but it
you may have to use the <FONT> tag as well.
It is possible for users to override any
<FONT> you have specified.  There is no
way to absolutely guarantee the greek letters
(or any character, actually) will be rendered
as you intended it.

As for a reference, I find the O'Reilly books
excellent, for example "Dynamic HTML" by
Danny Goodman has a table of character
entities on page 1018.

Try this link as well.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/mathsym.html

TJ O'Donnell
tjo@acm.org

On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Kieran F Lim (Lim Pak Kwan) wrote:

> How can I put greek letters into a HTML page?
> Can someone please point me to a reference/help site?