Technical documentation is system description aimed at thetechnical specialist who needs to understand the systems designin sufficient detail to be able to apply, repair, modify,enhance, or add on to the system. Technical documentation isaddressed to technician or Technical documentation normally includes a system overview,design drawings, including wiring diagrams, computer codes,component descriptions, and technical specifications. The following is a short excerpt from a technical referencemanual on the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The leading ampersand is required. The ampersand and semicolondelimit an entity name which the user agent will replace with aspecial character. The trailing semicolon is necessary when thecharacter following the entity is not a space or end of line.It is never incorrect to include the trailing semicolon. These main four special characters are specifically included inRFC 1866. --Sandia National Laboratories, HTML ReferenceManual Copyright ©2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. McGraw-Hill Higher Education is one of the many fine businesses of Special Characters
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