Package: texlive-latex-base
Version: 2007-13
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hi,
consider a piece of LaTeX as test.tex in attachment ; in this
I am using the latin1 code 183 to generate the corresponding symbol,
that is a centered dot. Unfortunately, this does not work
in math mode; as you can see in DVI (in attachment as well)
in math mode it is represented as a \Delta.
The reason is that latin1.def defines the input byte 183 to be simply
\textperiodcentered . The correct way to do that would be to use
\DeclareInputText{183}{\ifmmode\cdot\else\textperiodcentered\fi}
A similar problem is to be found in many other symbols.
Curiously, the attached test.tex did work in older versions
of LaTeX, and I had been using it for ~10 years.
a.
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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{inputenc}
\inputencoding{latin1}
\begin{document}
a single centered dot is �
and a scalar product is $v � w$
\end{document}
Attachment:
test.dvi
Description: TeX dvi file