Greek Alphabet Revisited


Thanks to Ken Wadlin for providing the following information...

HTML will display the Greek alphabet it the programmer inserts an ampersand before the name of the Greek character.  Start the name with a capital letter, if you want an upper case letter, or a small letter, if you want lower case.  Here is an example:

<h1>CAPITAL GREEK LETTERS:</h1>
<h2> &Alpha;&Beta;&Gamma;&Delta;&Epsilon;&Zeta;&Eta;&Theta;
        &Iota;&Kappa;&Lambda;&Mu;&Nu;&Xi;&Omicron;&Pi;&Rho;
        &Sigma;&Tau;&Upsilon;&Phi;&Chi;&Psi;&Omega;</h2>

<h1>lower case Greek letters:</h1>
<h2> &alpha;&beta;&gamma;&delta;&epsilon;&zeta;&eta;&theta;
        &iota;&kappa;&lambda;&mu;&nu;&xi;&omicron;&pi;&rho;
        &sigma;&tau;&upsilon;&phi;&chi;&psi;&omega;</h2>

Which renders as...

CAPITAL GREEK LETTERS:

ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘ         ΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡ         ΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ

lower case Greek letters:

αβγδεζηθ         ικλμνξοπρ         στυφχψω

I'm not sure what notation support you are trying to put in html, but here are a few that come to my mind:

        DESIRED SIGN            SYMBOL
        less-that sign          &lt;
        greater-than            &gt;
        division sign           &divide;
        multiplication sign     &times;
        plus-or-minus sign      &plusmn;
        micro sign              &micro;
        degree sign             &deg;

Which renders as...

        less-that sign          <         greater-than            >         division sign           ÷         multiplication sign     ×         plus-or-minus sign      ±         micro sign              µ         degree sign             °


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This page last updated 3/18/05