From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Which way to type greek letters in synonym list?
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:03:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1CD42B50-210B-4EBB-98BC-1F2AFEA88EAB@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A2A1FDB-413F-4ADC-B240-06EB6DEFC5C0@uni-koblenz.de>
Am 06.12.2010 um 15:48 schrieb Andreas Harder:
> Hi!
>
>> But if I type
>> \nomenclature{$\alpha$}{Angle of something}
> Try \nomenclature[alpha]{$\alpha$}{…}
This will fail because to create a macro \alpha which expands to \alpha ...
Use uppercase letter to prevent this, when your font contains greek you can also use a text alpha, e.g.
\abbreviation[ALPHA]{α}{Angle of something}
\setupbodyfont[termes]
\starttext
\ALPHA
\stoptext
Wolfgang
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-06 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-06 14:43 seasoul
2010-12-06 14:48 ` Andreas Harder
2010-12-06 16:03 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2010-12-07 3:57 ` seasoul
2010-12-17 5:23 ` Jonas Stein
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1CD42B50-210B-4EBB-98BC-1F2AFEA88EAB@gmail.com \
--to=schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com \
--cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).