Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have a collection of notes on my
iPad, written using a markdown editor/viewer (trunk notes) that
does not understand latex, but does display greek. Is there a
simple way to convert the greek letters (e.g. convert the UTF-8
symbol 0xCEB1, α) to their latex equivalents (\alpha)? I am
using pandoc for the conversion, which is pasting a LaTeX header
onto the output before conversion to TeX or ConTeXt.
share|improve this question Do you need them also in text or
only in math? –  egreg Jun 21 '12 at 14:38 Both. I'm placing
some short notes inline, and putting longer equations in center
/center tags. The app doesn't understand latex, so I am
displaying it as HTML on the iPad, but would like to translate
the notes to LaTex on my computer. One path is
markdown->html->pdf, but that is rather ugly. –  Bill Jun 25 '12
at 2:51  3 Answers 3  In ConTeXt (both MkIV and MkII with utf-8
encoding), Greek letters work out of the box in text and math
mode. (You need a text font with Greek letters)  α