Special Symbols

Know how to treat some special symbols in HyperFluxCMS

HyperFluxCMS uses some characters for special functions. If you need to use them in your text, you will need to take some simple but mandatory precautions for your page to work correctly.

While preparing the page, HyperFluxCMS needs to know whether a given symbol is part of the text or part of the markup language.

These symbols are <, >, [, ], \.

These symbols are part of the HyperFluxCMS markup language system and are understood by the page processor as characters with special functions.

If any of these characters appear in your text, it is necessary to type a backslash \ immediately before the character (without leaving a space) every time one of these characters appears.

For example, if your post contains the text c:\>, you must type \ before the characters above (which in this case are "\" and ">"). Therefore, you must type c:\\\> for the page to be processed correctly and the desired text to appear correctly for the site visitor. Note that the \ character that was in the original text was preceded by another \ and thus became \\.

This process of indicating to a system that the following character is special and should be treated differently from the standard is called "Escape sequence" or "escaping" and is very common in computer and telecommunications systems.

These symbols <, >, [, ], \ are used by the HTML and HyperCode languages and this escape sequence must be used in every post you write that uses these symbols and where you want them to appear as they are, rather than serving their standard markup function.

But if you prefer to use the HyperLite language, things are a little more complicated. The HyperLite language uses more characters for markup and therefore the list of characters that must be escaped is larger. See Special Symbols in HyperLite.