Thanks, the \traceall seems to be the thing I am looking for...its only few
hundred lines not lakhs ...
BTW: So you know "lakh" that Indian-ism for 100 thousand (10^5) ...
Venkat
On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> If you put {\tracingall \textit{\mu}} to your document, you will be
> able to see what TeX is doing but be prepared to read "lakh" (or even
> more) lines of messages in the log file. Do not forget the outer curly
> braces, without them you will not be able to find anything. I have not
> tried, I just keep the rule that using a math symbol outside of math
> leads to an error or at least to strange things.
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
>
> 2016-09-04 4:39 GMT+02:00 Suki Venkat <suki.ven...@gmail.com>:
> > It almost worked fro me, just the quotes spoiled it.
> > I am just looking for an explanation of how such a strange thing appears
> > from nowhere.
> >
> > Suki
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> \textit{μ} requests Greek μ in italics from a text font while \mu is
> >> a math synbol that cannot properly work outside math and \textit
> >> switches the text style to italics.
> >> Zdeněk Wagner
> >> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> >> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
> >>
> >>
> >> 2016-09-03 13:32 GMT+02:00 Suki Venkat <suki.ven...@gmail.com>:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Whenever I use
> >> >
> >> > \textit{\mu}
> >> >
> >> > instead of the usual UTF-8:
> >> >
> >> > \textit{μ}
> >> >
> >> > I get a strange quote symbol before the Greek mu in the PDF.
> >> > In the preamble I use:
> >> > \usepackage{mathspec}
> >> > \setmathsfont(Digits,Latin,Greek){Linux Libertine}
> >> > \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine}
> >> >
> >> > You can recreate the problem with any other Greek symbol or any other
> >> > font
> >> > other than "Linux Libertine".
> >> > If we comment these lines in the preamble then I get the usual error
> >> > message
> >> > saying missing dollar etc. but with the above preamble I get no such
> >> > error
> >> > message but a PDF with a extra quote sign.
> >> >
> >> > Suki
> >> >
> >> >
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