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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:07:55 -0700 (PDT), Jan C. Faerber wrote:

On Oct 26, 2:35*pm, Adrienne Boswell wrote:

only I still don't understand the problem
with "&".
Is it better to change them to "&"?

Hey - hey - hey!
Don't spoil my quoted ampersand!! I wrote "&amp;"!

She didn't spoil anything; your text was intact in her reply when I viewed
it in my newsreader. It's probably only messed up in your reply because
you're using GoogleGroups' Web interface to usenet instead of an actual
newsreader.

Yes, always escape ampersand. *

I wonder if you never get a mess with a recursive problem
like ( ( ( &amp; ) amp; ) amp; ) amp;

Yes, it's possible. Like maybe if you use GoogleGroups. Whether Adrienne
herself ever has this problem, I don't know; she seems to be a competent
coder.

In my authoring, I always use the whole word "and" unless the ampersand is
a part of a company's name, like Ben & Jerry's.

which authoring?

HTML authoring, of course, as for the World Wide Web.

--
John
What kind of authoring would we discuss in alt.html?

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Jan C. Faerber"
<faerber.jan (AT) gmail (DOT) com> writing in
news:4c6231ed-d2c2-468d-9ad9-604ad5451760 (AT) e4g2000prn (DOT) googlegroups.com:

On Oct 26, 2:35*pm, Adrienne Boswell <arb... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

only I still don't understand the problem
with "&".
Is it better to change them to "&"?

Hey - hey - hey!
Don't spoil my quoted ampersand!! I wrote "&amp;"!

It showed up for me as a single ampersand character between two
quotation marks.

Yes, always escape ampersand. *

I wonder if you never get a mess with a recursive problem
like ( ( ( &amp; ) amp; ) amp; ) amp;

Just so, we see an example of that here. You wrote &amp; but I only saw
& - had you escaped the first ampersand (&amp;mp I _might_ have seen
it that way (no guarantee because you're using Google Groups).

In my authoring, I always use the whole word "and" unless the
ampersand i
s
a part of a company's name, like Ben & Jerry's.

which authoring?

HTML authoring.

--
Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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On Oct 27, 3:03*pm, Adrienne Boswell <arb... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

It showed up for me as a single ampersand character between two
quotation marks. *

Yes, always escape ampersand. *

I wonder if you never get a mess with a recursive problem
like ( ( ( & ) amp; ) amp; ) amp;

Just so, we see an example of that here. *You wrote & but I only saw
& - had you escaped the first ampersand (&mp I _might_ have seen
it that way (no guarantee because you're using Google Groups).

Oh - sorry!
Good to know that thing.
I should use the backslash.
\\&\\a\\m\\p\\;

which authoring?

HTML authoring. *

For a magazine? Or for the web? Or for books?
No matter - go on.