···<date: 2013-03-30, Saturday>···<from: Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس   سماوي حامد>···

> Dear gang,
> 
> My apologies if the answers to the following are already well-known
> and if I'm being completely clueless:
> 
> What is the standard way of representing the symbol '\TeX' in html
> and the like?

I use margins to emulate kerns:

  <span>T<span style="vertical-align:-0.5ex;margin-left:-0.1667em;margin-right:-0.125em;">E</span>X</span>

Maybe add font-family: "CMU Serif" to the style.

Regards
Philipp