14. Character Entities

Character entities are sort of like variables. Because their are so many types of characters out there, the creators of SGML decided to create a huge list of entities. These are just variables which are called to represent some specific character. Here are a few that I've used in writing this document and a few that may be useful in your own documents. For a full list of possible character entities consult [ DocBook: The Definitive Guide ].

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And here is what they look like:

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