Thanks to Andreas and Wolfgang,

      That's true. The uppercase letter works, the lowercase method
complains.




On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> 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]{á}{Angle of something}
> \setupbodyfont[termes]
> \starttext
> \ALPHA
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>
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