Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > It depends on what LateX accept. If \alpha can be recognized directly by > > LateX (maybe with > > > textcomp?), I see no reason to encasulate that in a TeX formula. > > No, \alpha can't be read by LaTeX in text mode and I don't want to add all > greek characters, only the math characters widely used also in texts, the > ones I listed.
I'm not sure it's a good idea to encapsulate greek characters in mathed. After all, they're _primarily_ greek characters (rather than math symbols). If I, as a human scientist, copy some greek quotation in my paper, I don't want them to appear as a formula. So from my point of view, we should rather switch to greek in this case. Jürgen
