show special characters in text

plutek / 2012-06-12 20:47:06   

greetings!

wondering how to show special characters in text -- for example, in html &lt usually yields < but in indexhibit it just comes out as &lt (although it gets auto-translated into < in the text input box)

cheers!
.pltk.

Vaska A / 2012-06-12 22:12:10   

Yeah, this is a problem. The plan, a bit later, is to write a near parsing engine that will allow more things to happen - and be more fun to play with - but for the moment it's not great with some special characters.

You can, as an odd workaround, make a plugin that will output those things...

Sorry about that.

plutek / 2012-06-13 12:49:15   

is there documentation somewhere about plugin writing?

Vaska A / 2012-06-13 13:01:09   

I could write a super fast one, I think. What kind of plugin are you looking to create - what will it do?

plutek / 2012-06-13 13:03:25   

simply allow special characters in indexhibit text.

plutek / 2012-06-13 13:45:42   

hmm.... just found that it works fine when i remember to follow the & notation for the special character with a ;

i.e. &lt doesn't work, but < DOES work!

cool... cheers!
.pltk.

plutek / 2012-06-13 13:46:17   

"<"

plutek / 2012-06-13 13:48:26   

well, i hope you get what i'm saying...

  1. < successfully shows the "less than" symbol!
plutek / 2012-06-13 13:49:52   

sorry... i can't figure out how to show the keystrokes which work:

& l t ; (without the spaces, of course!)

Vaska A / 2012-06-13 14:07:03   

w3schools.com/html/…

plutek / 2012-06-13 14:20:19   

yes... thanks, vaska! sorry for all the noise here, when i was just forgetting the ;

oops... cheers!
.pltk.

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