Testing, Testing......

Wow, It Really Works!

Cool!

Dave

But How Do You Do Subscripts and Funky Greek Letters?

Looks like a partial success. I can't figure out how to do subscripts, greek letters, and other math symbols. Is there a Help Section for X-TeX?

Dave

But How Do You Do Subscripts and Funky Greek Letters?

Ascii codes should get you there.

But How Do You Do Subscripts and Funky Greek Letters?

Thanks, Kris. You jogged my old memory, and I did a Google search. Found it.

Degree Symbol = ALT >> 0176

Dave

But How Do You Do Subscripts and Funky Greek Letters?

Alt 248 will also do degree symbol.

But How Do You Do Subscripts and Funky Greek Letters?

Alt-167 is the masculine ordinal indicator, not a degree symbol. What the heck's that, you ask? It's for a language that has words like primero / primera and you write primero as 1º. In some fonts, you'll see the o or a (alt-166) underlined.

Melita

But How Do You Do Subscripts and Funky Greek Letters?

OK, so this is good information.

ALT >> 0176 = °
ALT >> 0248 = ø
ALT >> 0167 = §
ALT >> 0166 = ¦

I gotta say 0176 looks the closest to a degree symbol. I will research further.

Dave

But How Do You Do Subscripts and Funky Greek Letters?

° = ALT 248
ø = ALT 0248
See the difference. The zero isn't just a place holder. 🙂

But How Do You Do Subscripts and Funky Greek Letters?

Kris,

OK, now we're getting somewhere! Apparently, there are about 900,000(hyperbole alert) different ALT+ numbers that look kinda like the degree symbol. Fooey!

ALT+0176 = °
ALT+248 = °
ALT+167 = º
ALT+0186 = º

Looks like 0176 and 248 win. They all look OK, though.

Dave

But How Do You Do Subscripts and Funky Greek Letters?

Trying something:
¢ § © ± ² ³ µ ¶ Ø ð ÷ ø ±

Some of these were different in "word" than how they show up here.

But How Do You Do Subscripts and Funky Greek Letters?

Superscripts, subscripts, greek letters, and special signs like integrals can be done with the TeX option in the formatting list. Here are some examples I found:

[ left( sum_{k=1}^n a_k b_k right)^2 leq left( sum_{k=1}^n a_k^2 right) left( sum_{k=1}^n b_k^2 right) ]
[tex][ left( sum_{k=1}^n a_k b_k right)^2 leq left( sum_{k=1}^n a_k^2 right) left( sum_{k=1}^n b_k^2 right) ] [/tex]

alpha beta gamma Gamma
[tex]alpha beta gamma Gamma[/tex]

I'm not sure if this forum takes the old TeX, or LaTeX or some other variant.

But How Do You Do Subscripts and Funky Greek Letters?

Mark,

I noticed that too. There's also a difference between "Preview" and the actual Post.

Dave

But How Do You Do Subscripts and Funky Greek Letters?

Bill,

I nosed around the Innertubes quite a bit today looking for the rules of TeX. I couldn't find anything definitive. I remember at one time that Wendell had a link to how it worked. I might be wrong on that.

Dave