> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2021 at 1:49 PM > From: "Leo Butler" <[email protected]> > To: "help-texinfo gnu" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: cyrillic characters in mathematical symbols > > [email protected] writes: > > >> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 03:18:03PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > >> > Does texinfo accept cyrillic characters in mathematical symbols? > >> > > >> > >> I don't know about mathematics formatting. There doesn't appear to be > >> any special support for it in texinfo.tex. I have this file on my > >> hard disk (based on copyright page it is the Texinfo manual from 1999), > >> but I don't know how it was produced. > > > > Could we figure that out? > > > > There are a lot of russian mathematical work, which although > > published are hardly ever cited. And it would be better if > > people could use the original nomenclature than using other > > symbols such as greek or latin instead. > > texinfo.tex has \DeclareUnicodeCharacter, which has all the power you > need, I suspect. > > Btw, as a mathematician, I don't feel compelled to use the same symbols > as someone else. The ideas are important, the packaging is less so. > > Leo
Of course, but expanding the possibilities is not a bad thing either. I still find value in standardisation, rather than having everybody using a different nomenclature, especially during reviews. Do you know how to use the feature you mentioned? Perhaps some examples would help greatly. Many thanks.
