- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 23:59:32 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Does anyone know the best way to mark up short-hand for Square Meters - as > in M2. Depends on the audience. For a mathematically inclined audience, MathML might just be appropriate. For an audience with good high school physics, m<sup>2</sup> (note that it is lower case m). For a general audience, square metres or, possibly, <abbr title="square metres">sq. m.</abbr>. (I've got a square meter, but nowadays people use LCD digital displays.) > > It would be good if I could actually envelope the "2" in some tag then I > can style it also as superscript. There is such an element: you surround it with the two tags <sup> and </sup>. However, there is actually a superscript 2 (²) character that probably has sufficiently universal support to be safe to use (but not for a non-mathematical, general, audience). It even seems to be in code page 437, so available to European/North American PC text mode users. Lynx cannot upshift the sup element, but can use the superscript 2 glyph. I think I prefer the character.
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