Hypatia create is great! However, it’s a bit too smart for it’s own good. I tried creating an equation that used a variable named “pin”, but the equation editor automatically converted the “pi” into the Greek letter “pi”, so “pin” turned into “n” , which is obviously undesired.
I got a notification the conversion was automatic and that ctrl-z would undo it. So I could get it back to what I wanted. But I want to turn off this automatic conversion. I don’t want “pi” to turn into the Greek letter, since the Latex format of “\pi” is good enough for me.
How do I turn off the auto-conversion? It keeps cropping up all over the place…
Currently, there is no option to turn off automatic conversions. However, you can switch to text mode, either by clicking on the T icon on the left or by pressing Alt-T. Autoconversions are turned of in the text mode. In addition, it might be desirable to type a variable pin in text font to differentiate it from implicit multiplication pin:
I personally find autoconversions to be less helpful than useful. Would really appreciate ability to turn them off. Why do I need “ast” to be converted to “*” when I can just press shift 8? Good intentions, but constantly having to convert things to text seems needlessly inefficient.
