erik,
You're reply and some reflection convinced me that my first
approach is just wrong. I don't understand the next-to-last
paragraph though. I tried creating gktbl and making the change
you suggest to text.c, and it seems to work. Why does
isalpharune() need changing?
Greg
> i'm pretty sure that's wrong for reswords like "≥" or "and".
> a font change would also change the appearance of existing
> documents. my change also changes the appearance of
> existing documents, but only those that use the relatively-
> new unicode input.
>
> on the other hand, for Γ to be treated the same as G,
> one would need a new table gktbl() that would be added
> here
>
> /sys/src/cmd/eqn/text.c:85,91
> else if ((tp = lookup(restbl, p1)) != NULL) {
> p = tp->cval;
> } else {
> + if (tp = lookup(gktbl, p1)) != NULL)
> + p = p1 = tp->cval
> lf = rf = 0;
> lastft = 0;
> nclass = NONE; /* get started with no class == no pad */
> csp = cs;
>
> one would also need to modifiy isalpharune to return
> true for greek letters. or just use the system isalpharune.
> i'm sure one could find a number of other bugs.
>
> the reason i didn't suggest this is because it changes old
> documents. perhaps we should just take our lumps and
> fix the problem.
>
> - erik
