[NTG-context] unicode feature request

Charles P. Schaum verbo.solo at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jun 7 05:05:31 CEST 2008

You should just be able to drop in the math code as such:

This is an example of the $\le$ operator.

You will get the proper encoding from the PDF generated.

You could theoretically do:


This is an example of the \LE\ operator.

The reason why this is so is because the operators are designed to look
like proper math typesetting, what usually does not happen in many
situations with normal text. TeX was DEK's solution to typesetting
mathematically-oriented books and he would be unlikely to introduce a
counter-intuitive concept.


On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 22:18 +0200, Peter Münster wrote:
> Hello,
> Just as the signs <, >, + and −, it would be nice if also other signs such
> as ≤ (less-than or equal to, 2264) or ⇒ (rightwards double arrow, 21D2)
> worked in text mode and not only in math mode.
> Cheers, Peter

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