Subscript characters

coolreport · Member · Aug 5, 2009 at 2:50 pm
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I’m trying to write a post that needs a small subscript character in the text but can find no way to do it. It would also be useful to be able to put the same into my blog title.

I have tried using ….. but it doesn’t work!

Can anybody help please?

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1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Aug 5, 2009 at 2:52 pm
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coolreport

What is the link to your blog? http://
and which character are you looking for?
coolreport · Member · Aug 5, 2009 at 4:20 pm
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Thank you for the reply.

The blog is http://coolreport.wordpress.com

I’m looking to put the 2 in CO2 subscripted.

Many thanks
thesacredpath · Member · Aug 5, 2009 at 4:25 pm
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I just did this (entering the HTML in the HTML tab and it worked for me

CO2

I don’t know if it works in all themes or not.
thesacredpath · Member · Aug 5, 2009 at 4:27 pm
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I just switched to Contempt, the theme you are using, and it works fine.
panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 5, 2009 at 4:40 pm
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@coolreport: thesacredpath is right – the sub tab produces smaller size as well. But depending on the font, that may not be so obvious. If you want to adjust the size at will, use this (you can change the percentage):
CO2
coolreport · Member · Aug 5, 2009 at 4:41 pm
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doh!

As a new user I hadn’t spotted the HTML tab!!! Shows how observant I am when using this new stuff. Thank you for your help on the post issue – any idea how to get the same in the blog title please?
thesacredpath · Member · Aug 5, 2009 at 4:53 pm
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Blog titles will not accept HTML, nor will taglines.
panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 5, 2009 at 4:57 pm
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You can’t use html tags in title boxes. What you can do is create a custom image for your header in an image editing application, add the blog title in it as a graphic, upload it via Appearance > Custom Header, and click the “Hide Text” option so that the standard title won’t show as well. For the theme you’re using, the image should be 750×140 pixels.
sensuouscurmudgeon · Member · Aug 5, 2009 at 4:58 pm
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If anyone cares, superscript works too:
E=mc2
coolreport · Member · Aug 5, 2009 at 4:59 pm
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Thank you everyone for your help.

Issue resolved now!
patriciaerickson · Member · Aug 7, 2009 at 1:44 am
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Hello,

I am a new blogger: patriciaerickson.wordpress.com. My blog seems to be fine, but when I send the information (feed?) to my website, http://www.avitacareermanagement.com, I end up with characters all over my posts on my blog page. Can someone tell me how to get rid of these? I have already cut/pasted them into notepad saved and then placed back into my blog then sent them to my website.

I would appreciate some advisement!

Thanks
thesacredpath · Member · Aug 7, 2009 at 2:28 am
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What are you using on your website end to display the RSS feed, and when you say “characters” all over the blog posts, what exactly do you mean? Can you give us an example?
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Aug 7, 2009 at 2:34 am
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patriciaerickson,
I think you are somehow getting “curly” apostrophes rather than straight, perhaps by some setting in Word or other program. From a typographical point of view, they are more sophisticated, but for a feed, plain ascii characters are better. In html mode, replace your curly apostropes with:
```
&apos;
or
'
```
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Aug 7, 2009 at 2:36 am
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Right. The editor here stripped it.

& # 3 9 ;
without the spaces between the symbols.

http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/htmlchrc.html
thesacredpath · Member · Aug 7, 2009 at 2:40 am
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The other thing that might be an issue is RSS (and blogs here) uses UTF-8 character encoding and your website is showing a different encoding, ISO-8859-1:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
You might have to change your website to UTF-8 encoding – which is actually the web standard nowadays.

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