Re: math environments

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

>>>>> "Jean-Pierre" == Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Jean-Pierre> Does \mbox{$...$} come in the list ? This is recommended
Jean-Pierre> in the Lamport book to define new math commands which may
Jean-Pierre> be used as plain LaTeX commands or inside math
Jean-Pierre> environments.

Jean-Pierre> In the preamble: \newcommand{\myalpha}{\mbox{$\alpha$}}
Jean-Pierre> Then \myalpha and $\myalpha$ (or any other use in math
Jean-Pierre> mode) produces the required greek letter.

IMHO, a better macro for that is \ensuremath{\alpha}.

JMarc