Sniffnoy comments on Official Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Suggestions - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Louie 20 April 2011 05:56PM

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 21 April 2011 03:59:31AM 0 points [-]

Some way to get HTML entities (i.e. stuff like &isin; and &sube;, not stuff like <b> and <i>) - or something similar - to work in comments.

Comment author: ata 21 April 2011 04:02:00AM 3 points [-]

You can use the Unicode characters represented by those entities directly — e.g. ∈, ⊆.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 21 April 2011 04:22:44AM 2 points [-]

...of course it's not obvious that there's a convenient way to do this, so thank you for making me go look for one! It turns out http://unicodelookup.com/ works pretty well for this purpose. Nevermind; this is unecessary after all.

Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 21 April 2011 04:47:54AM 1 point [-]

You might also take a look at Using LaTeX to render mathematics. However, the Unicode solution may be preferable in many instances, as text is less obtrusive than inserted images for simple usage.