Re: Version 3
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- Subject: [mg6323] Re: [mg6314] Version 3
- From: Allan Hayes <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 23:26:46 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Mr D R Gautam <esujh at csv.warwick.ac.uk> [mg6314] Version 3 writes >The system I am using has just changed to version 3 and I'm having > problems displaying greek letters. I remember reading in the book > that greek letters lay between 913 and 1009 but how do I display > these characters. If I try "\:913" nothings happens can anyone help > as I can't get a copy of the text book Davinder, Are you using the Notebook front end or the kernel terminal? >I can't get a copy of the text book The book whole book, and more, is on disk - for greek letters look up the menu Help>Help>MasterIndex>Greek. Some patterns for getting greek letters are exemplified by the following for alpha: \[Alpha] (*full name*) Escape, a, Escape (*standard alias*) Escape, alpha, Escape (*standard alias*) Escape, \alpha, Escape (*TeX alias*) Escape, &agr, Escape (*SGML alias*) You can also click greek letters in from palettes. For ASCII code: FromCharacterCode[Range[913, 1009]] Allan Hayes hay at haystack.demon.co.uk http://www.haystack.demon.co.uk