Bug#466403: texlive-latex-base: input encodings should work in math mode too

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

A Mennucc <debdev@mennucci.sns.it> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the report and concise analysis. Since we're currently very
short on manpower in the Debian TeX team, could you do us a favor and
bring the report upstream yourself?  The right upstream place is the
LaTeX BTS at http://www.latex-project.org/

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)