Spanish punctuation

Can someone tell me how to render Spanish punctuation, such as the upside
down question marks, etc? Can you refer me to a resource page?

Thanks,
Al

"Alofbama" <alofbama (AT) cableone (DOT) net> wrote:

Can someone tell me how to render Spanish punctuation, such as the
upside down question marks, etc? Can you refer me to a resource page?

You can write them as ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin 1) characters. See
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/HTML3.2/3.1.html
for a short intro and
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/HTML3.2/latin1.html
for a quick reference.

For example, on Windows, Alt 0191 produces the inverted question mark.
You can also use the reference ¿ or the reference &iquest;.

The difficult part in Spanish punctuation is the eventual use of (thin)
spaces between quotation marks and quoted text. Even the detailed
orthography guide by the Spanish academy doesn't seem to resolve the
issue. In HTML, there is no real way to create an unbreakable thin space
(&nbsp; is normal-width, and &thinsp; is poorly supported _and_ not
nonbreaking). But I guess you don't want to get into such details.

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Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html

Thank you very much -- this is exactly what I need.

Al


"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela (AT) cs (DOT) tut.fi> wrote

"Alofbama" <alofbama (AT) cableone (DOT) net> wrote:

Can someone tell me how to render Spanish punctuation, such as the
upside down question marks, etc? Can you refer me to a resource page?

You can write them as ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin 1) characters. See
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/HTML3.2/3.1.html
for a short intro and
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/HTML3.2/latin1.html
for a quick reference.

For example, on Windows, Alt 0191 produces the inverted question mark.
You can also use the reference ¿ or the reference &iquest;.

The difficult part in Spanish punctuation is the eventual use of (thin)
spaces between quotation marks and quoted text. Even the detailed
orthography guide by the Spanish academy doesn't seem to resolve the
issue. In HTML, there is no real way to create an unbreakable thin space
(&nbsp; is normal-width, and &thinsp; is poorly supported _and_ not
nonbreaking). But I guess you don't want to get into such details.

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html