Greek letters

[popilin]

Gentlemen, I am sorry to have to bother for so little, but it is to write formulas is one of my vices, and I can not write the Greek letter pi, instead appears Cyrillic counterpart π.

The funny thing is that first displays correctly, then the post appears bad.

Thanks

 

[sofaspud]

And you're looking to post this... π ?
I did this by just clicking the "Switch Editor Mode" button at the top right of the Quick Reply message editing window. I'm not sure what the button does other than change between serif and sans serif fonts.
edit: uhh... no... it seems to switch back when the Post Reply button is clicked. Rats! I hate when that happens.

 

[popilin]

Yes, to me it is the same, when I press the button "Preview Post" and "Submit Replay"

The problem began this year, in old post last year everything worked fine.

 

[Speedskater]

We did this thread some years ago. Anybody good at searching?

 

[popilin]

We did this thread some years ago. Anybody good at searching?

I do, I read the whole thread, but the problem now is another, to clarify ideas.

Last year

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/lounge/213901-silly-questions-answers-14.html#post3066881

This year

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/tube...ing-interstage-transformer-4.html#post3394663

The strangest thing is that it only happens with pi.

 

[popilin]

Crick, crick, ... , crick...

 

[popilin]

Today happened to me once more

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/tubes-valves/229752-elevated-heater-question-5.html#post3444935

Is that moderators can not return pi ?

Perhaps stole it Wavebourn ?

He likes the Cyrillic π

 

[DUG]

Why not just use "pi"?

I think we will understand. (I hope we will understand)

 

[Salas]

Today happened to me once more

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/tubes-valves/229752-elevated-heater-question-5.html#post3444935

Is that moderators can not return pi ?

Perhaps stole it Wavebourn ?

He likes the Cyrillic π

You post that to "forum problems" threads but for Jason to see. We mods are not accessing the platform.

 

[tvi]

I think its just the way Tahoma renders pi, if you select another font...

π Tahoma, forum default
π Times New Roman
π Georgia

 

[popilin]

You post that to "forum problems" threads but for Jason to see. We mods are not accessing the platform.

I understand, thank you !

 

[popilin]

I think its just the way Tahoma renders pi, if you select another font...

π Tahoma, forum default
π Times New Roman
π Georgia

I ever use the same font, forum default, I will a try, thanks !

1) As ever π

2) First try π

3) Second try π

It works !!! Thank you all !!!

 

[AndrewT]

How do you code the post to get the symbol to display?

It would be nice if the "ALT" + 0xxx would work, but I can't find the correct number.
If I could get the correct number for 0xxx do I then need to add extra coding to select and deselect the alternative font?

 

[popilin]

How do you code the post to get the symbol to display?

It would be nice if the "ALT" + 0xxx would work, but I can't find the correct number.
If I could get the correct number for 0xxx do I then need to add extra coding to select and deselect the alternative font?

I have no idea

I simply open charmap on Windows XP and copy-paste...

With advice of tvi, select the character and change font type.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Andrew, Google is your friend
http://usefulshortcuts.com/alt-codes/maths-alt-codes.php

 

[Cal Weldon]

Here's Greek letters
ALT Codes - Alt Codes for Greek Letters

 

[godfrey]

Thanks popilin, even I can understand that. ♫ ♥

There's some odd choices of characters there. What use are half a dozen random fractions like ⅝? Maybe somebody did a poll and decided they were the 6 most popular fractions on the interweb.

More likely they assigned codes for every conceivably useful character they could think of, then it came down to: "OK guys, there's still 57 codes with no symbols assigned. Think of something, anything. We need to get this list finished, dammit!".

Hey, Cal's alt codes work too! ☻

 

[AndrewT]

¼ (alt+0188) works on this Forum
as do most of the other alt+0xxx
But the alt+xxx do not work for me on this Forum
alt+227 gives Ò instead of Pi.
Similarly for the other alt+xxx

So I ask again, since I can't find the alt+0xxx for pi.
What is the code for Pi that works on this Forum?
and what font needs to be coded to display correctly?

 

[Cal Weldon]

I cannot help as I am on a Mac. I wil ask Jason to look into this.

 

[Jason]

I don't have a computer or keyboard with Numlock so I don't think I can test this properly, but this did work in Wordpad (where you just press ALT-X after typing a hex code): 3A0 / 3C0.

So.. on your keyboard try "Alt +03A0" and "Alt +03C0".

Reference: Unicode Character 'GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI' (U+03A0)

As for the font... yes looks like Tahoma renders them both in the "upper case" version..

This is Times New Roman: π