Entering the HTML tag for those characters works. The character tags for them are as follows: <br><b><br><span class="tealdark"> Mu: &micro;</span> <br> Degree: &deg;</b><br><br>This is a little better than the use of the table at the bottom of the form.
<br><br>An alternative that isn't any shorter than the above expression would be by using an extension I modified:<br><br> <b>{{deg:}} or {{mu:}}<br></b><br>I've enabled this via an extension in beta. It's pretty clumsy. Using this method, we can add any tags of interest. But it's pretty ugly.
<br><br>The curly braces tell the parser this is a parser extension, while the ":" is present to allow arguments to be appended.<br><br>It's possible to make this more compact if needed, but this is what's immediately possible,
<br><br>We can directly augment the parser if needed if you need a more compact way to label either of them. <br><br>If anyone else has suggestions, let me know.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 10, 2007 5:01 PM, Tom Knight <
<a href="mailto:tk@csail.mit.edu">tk@csail.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On our pages, the micro (mu) and degree sign are so common that I
<br>think they deserve special attention. I don't have a clear idea of<br>what to do, but this feature (for me) does not help. It's easier to<br>type &mu; and &deg;<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
<br><br>On Nov 10, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Bill Flanagan wrote:<br><br>> We've added a feature to help displaying special characters and<br>> character string to OpenWetWare documents. If you've used this<br>> feature in Wikipedia, it now works exactly the same in OpenWetWare.
<br>><br>> When you edit any page or choose to download a new file,<br>> OpenWetWare will now display a list of characters and tags at the<br>> base of the page. By clicking on any of these characters or tags,
<br>> the ascii code will be inserted into the page being edited at the<br>> current cursor location.<br>><br>> The range of special sequences includes the following:<br>><br>> MediaWiki Markup<br>> Greek
<br>> Cyrillic<br>> Other special characters.<br>><br>> All of the current special tags supported by OpenWetWare will be<br>> included in the list.<br>><br>> If there are special vocabularies or character sets anyone wants
<br>> add to this list, please consult with me. We can add them quickly.<br>><br>> Thanks.<br>><br>> Bill Flanagan<br>> OpenWetWare.org<br>><br>><br>><br></div></div>> _______________________________________________
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