Why use raquo as a page title separation?

Well, the “upper case epsilon” is what became our (Latin) E.

Hmmm. The things they never taught one in school….

I’m not quite sure which symbol you tracked down, but ∋, (code number 8715) is the more correct character to use.

It is the opposite of the symbol you listed and is read “contains.”

i.e.

Some Site ∋ A page

(read “some site contains a page”)

There’s also ∍ (8717), which is a smaller version of the same glyph.

And technically, the element symbol is not quite the same as an epsilon. According to the Unicode standard, a lower case epsilon is ε (949). My math professor actually writes epsilon this way to be sure it isn’t confused with the element symbol. However, some people do write epsilon the same as an element symbol.

vkaryl – you probably never learned this because you never studied Greek. It’s not a common school class. I only know because my Latin teacher was a Greek major, so when she didn’t feel like teaching Latin one day, she taught us the Greek alphabet.

thenerdsangle

So, the chraracter I mentioned (code number 1028 ?) is for showing that X is contained by Y? Or did you only mean that it is only the mirror image of the character you mentioned(#8715)?

If not, is there a related symbol for “is contained by”?

It would be nice if there were, so that titles could be listed in either order: title first or section first.

I found these, sourtesty of the W3C
https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html

<!ENTITY isin CDATA “∈” — element of, U+2208 ISOtech –>
<!ENTITY notin CDATA “∉” — not an element of, U+2209 ISOtech –>
<!ENTITY ni CDATA “∋” — contains as member, U+220B ISOtech –>
<!ENTITY sub CDATA “⊂” — subset of, U+2282 ISOtech –>

That last one would be useful to show that a category is contained within a larger structure.