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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: exporting α/β to latex/pdf
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 18:33:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh06fsgf.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5367C1C8.2000306@inventati.org

"Clément B." <clement@inventati.org> writes:

>> The *easiest* solution is to just say \alpha and \beta in the org file
>> instead of α and β. But biting the bullet and adopting XeTeX or LuaTeX is
>> probably the *best* way to go (he says without ever having used either...)
>
> For those who stick with pdflatex, you can also use "α" directly in
> the org document, and define
>
> #+latex_header: \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> #+latex_header: \declareunicodecharacter{03b1}{α}
>
> Provided your file is indeed encoded in utf-8 (but why would you use
> any other encoding?)
>
> This simply tells the compiler to bind "α" to the unicode character
> "greek small letter alpha" (U+03B1). If there is a lot of unicode in
> the document, XeTeX/LuaTeX are definitely better choices.
>
>

But that's not quite right: you end up with a circular definition (and
both pdflatex and plain latex think so: they infloop).

One way to fix it using a math alpha:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+LATEX_HEADER: \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{03b1}{\(\alpha\)}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Another is to use \textalpha and a package that defines it:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{textgreek}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{03b1}{\textalpha}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

but then you have to install the package (and possibly some fonts as
well).

Nick

PS. So happy that gmane is back :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-06 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-04 15:13 exporting α/β to latex/pdf Sharon Kimble
2014-05-04 16:03 ` Scott Randby
2014-05-04 19:26 ` Joost Helberg
2014-05-04 21:42 ` Suvayu Ali
2014-05-04 22:14   ` Nick Dokos
2014-05-05 15:06     ` Suvayu Ali
2014-05-05 18:38       ` Grant Rettke
2014-05-05 16:52     ` "Clément B."
2014-05-06 22:33       ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-05-07 23:30         ` "Clément B."
2014-05-05  0:08   ` Sharon Kimble
2014-05-06  2:51   ` Rustom Mody
2014-05-06 12:48     ` Suvayu Ali

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