The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
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Location |
Description |
Submitted By |
Date Submitted |
Date Corrected |
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Page 15
Last paragraph |
"We think the following three web sites..."
then only two web sites are listed.
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Anonymous |
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Page 15
Removed |
http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/www.html
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Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 2000 |
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Page 33
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Did read:
Fortunately, HTML provides better, more extensive support
for collecting user input though forms.
Now reads:
Fortunately, HTML provides better, more extensive support
for collecting user input through forms.
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Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 2000 |
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Page 56
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In section 3.8.1.2, at the last bullet, the second sentence used to read:
It can one of three values
It now reads:
It can be one of three values.
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 56
Replaced "the local time zone of the system on which you are |
preparing the document" with "Greenwich Mean Time" along with
an sterisk for a footnote that reads "Greenwich Mean Time is
also known as 'Zulu', thus the value of 'Z'"
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 56
Replaced "Eastern Standard Time (that's where we authors live). |
Or, in UTC format" with "To specify Eastern Standard Time"
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 66
Figure 4-2, under "Stretched to the limit." added the following line |
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Anonymous |
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Oct 01, 1998 |
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Page 66
Deleted sentence beginning "Also notice that..." Replace |
"Notwithstanding" in the next sentence with "Note that".
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 66
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Did read:
Use the id attribute to create a label for the paragraph that can
later be to used to unambiguously reference that paragraph in a
hyperlink target, for automated searches, as a style-sheet selector,
and with a host of other applications.
Now reads:
Use the id attribute to create a label for the paragraph that can
later be used to unambiguously reference that paragraph in a
hyperlink target, for automated searches, as a style-sheet selector,
and with a host of other applications.
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Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 2000 |
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Page 73
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now reads:
As to be expected, your <h6> text may be readable at 320x480 resolution,
but disappear on a 600x800 display.
Should read:
As to be expected, your <h6> text may be readable at 480x320 resolution,
but disappear on a 800x600 display.
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 104
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Section 4.7.5.3, line 1 changed to read:
"...as to which direction the text within the <pre> segment
ought to be displyed"
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Anonymous |
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Oct 01, 1998 |
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Page 142
Section 5.2.6.8, para. 1, removed sentences 2 and 3 ("You can |
change the thickness..." and " The value of...") and replace them with:
"Use the border attribute and a pixel-width thickness value to
remove (border=0) or widen that image border. Be aware that this
attribute, too, is deprecated in HTML 4.0 in lieu of style sheets,
but continues to be well supported by the popular browsers."
("border," the first time it occurs, and "border = 0" should be in
constant width)
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Anonymous |
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Oct 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 180
The fourth paragraph did read "It is possible emulate...". |
It now reads "It is possible to emulate...".
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Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 2000 |
| Printed |
Page 226
In the imagemap sample file, replaced "circle" with "circ", |
"rectangle" with "rect" and "polygon" with "poly".
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 231
In sample <map> tag, replaced "shape=circle" with "shape=circ" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 232
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Section 7.5.4.6 did read:
We should point out that the current versions of the
popular browsers automatically display the alt attribute's
string value, obstensively accomplishing the same task.
Now reads:
We should point out that the current versions of the popular
browsers automatically display the alt attribute's string
value, effectively accomplishing the same task.
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Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 2000 |
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Page 273
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Did read:
<h1>I am ba-loooooo, tooooo!<h1>
Now reads:
<h1>I am ba-loooooo, tooooo!</h1>
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Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 2000 |
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Page 276
Replaced "browser loads" with "browser should load" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 276
Replaced "browser will prompt" with "browser should prompt" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 281
code sample, line -1: "<style>" now reads "</style>" |
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Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 282
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section 9.2.4.2, the last sentence of the section now reads:
"Netscape 4 and the latest versions of Internet Explorer
(4.01) support CSS generic classes."
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Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 1999 |
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Page 301
Replaced "These practice" with "This practice" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 302
Last bullet |
"If more than two properties are set to auto, and (if) one of them is
width, ..."
Changed to:
"If width, margin-left and margin-right are all set to auto, the
CSS-compliant browser will set both margin-left and margin-right to
zero, and set width large enough to make the total equal to the width
of the parent element."
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 305
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3rd paragraph of 9.3.6.5, last sentence now reads:
"Netscape Communicator 4.06 is now supporting three-dimensional effects."
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 313
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The last sentence of the section 9.3.8.1 now reads:
"Netscape 4 fully supports this property; Internet Explorer 4
supports only the block and none values."
Do note that IE5, which is in beta, does fully support CSS1 and much of CSS2.
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 315
9.5.1, first paragraph |
Removed second sentence and merged para 1 with para 2.
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 357
In the "<label>" box, under "Contains" |
form_contents
Has been changed to:
label_contents
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 358
para. 1, line 1: add "the" between "Use" and "<fieldset>" |
"Use <fieldset> tag..." should read "Use the <fieldset> tag..."
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Anonymous |
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Oct 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 382
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The "Baseline" line now reads:
<th><h1>Baseline__<br>Another line</h1></th>
(Note that there are two underscore characters after Baseline.)
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Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 382
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Paragraph 2-4 used to read:
<td valign=middle>AAyy</td>
It now reads:
<td valign=center>AAyy</td?
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 431
code sample 1, line 2: "</applet>" now reads "</object>" |
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Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 448
At end of para, replaced "by the server" with "by a properly |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 449
Last paragraph of 13.3.2, last sentence |
removed the phrase "... within the <noframes> tag"
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 451
13.3.3.3, line 2 |
"onKeyRelease" now reads "onKeyUp" (as on line 4)
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 469
removed the hyphen from the header |
"The Multipart/Mixed-Media..."
so it reads
"The Multipart/Mixed Media..."
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Anonymous |
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Oct 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 470
removed the same hyphen in the header |
"Multipart Mixed-Replace-Media..."
so it reads
"Multipart Mixed-Replace Media"
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Anonymous |
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Oct 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 475
In footnote replaced "A minority of web surfers use Internet Explorer, |
so you rarely and thankfully won't" with "Internet Explorer is just as
guilty; be thankful you don't"
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 483
In sample HTML, Replaced "Early in the history of man" with "For |
instance, early in the history of man"
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 487
In sample HTML, replaced "-->" with "//-->" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 494
In the rule for content_style, deletde the second instance of kbd_tag |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 497
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The fourth line in the left column used to read:
form_tag
It now reads:
label_tag
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 497
Replaced "<form>" with "<label>" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 497
Replaced "form_content" with "label_content" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 505
In the tabindex attribute of <area>, replaced "anchor inthe" with |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 507
In onblur attribute of <button>, replaced "into" with "out of"; in |
onfocus attribute, replace "out of" with "into"
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 513
In class attribute of <iframe>, replaced "rule" with "frame" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 519
"Disable" attribute of <input type=submit> is now "disabled" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 522
In hreflang attribute of <link>, "url" is now "language" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 539
"vertical-align" entry, 2nd column |
"baseline" should not be italicized
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 558
In Appendix E, deleted the accent over the "e" in Grave. |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 558
In Appendix E, added text to Numeric Entity ‚ |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 558
Also Appendix E, changed line „: changed quotes to two commas, and |
text to read: "Low left double quote"
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 559
In Appendix E, added text and symbol to line Š: "Capital S, caron" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 559
In Appendix E, added a new listing, Ž, reading: "Capital Z, caron" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 559
In Appendix E, added text and symbol to line š: "Small s, caron" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 559
In Appendix E, added a new listing, ž, reading: "Small z, caron" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 559
Replaced the symbol for line ¦ with a broken vertical bar (previous |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 560
Changed the symbol for line ­ to a hyphen. |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 560
Added a "plus or minus" symbol to line ±. |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 561
Added a new Y symbol with accent to line Ý. |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 561
Added a new thorn symbol to line Þ. |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 562
Added a new eth symbol to line ð. |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 562
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(562) Added a new snall thorn on line þ.
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |