Variables with angle brackets

I was trying to create a variable that contained angle brackets <> as the text needed in the variables are angle brackets in this instance. However, there is also text between the angel brackets. When I created the variable, the text between the angle brackets was in Courier New font and it had a red background. When I previewed the page, that information was cut out of the variable.
First, how do I add angle brackets within a variable (or can you)?
Second, what is happening when I add angle brackets and the font changes and the background color changes behind the text? What does it do? Can someone point me to an article or reference on what it does and how it's helpful?
Thanks.

Hi mcallit82,
you can have < or > in the udv values there are two ways to achieve this
1. You can directly type these characters in the design view of the UDV value as shown below
2. the UDV creation dialog you can use '<' for '<' and '>' for '>'
Hope this will help
Ashish

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With the new 700 SAPGUI and editor rollout they corrected one big shortcoming of the new editor: Before the user-specific settings were stored with thje local SAPGUI installation, now they are stored in the windows user settings directory.
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