Greek letter gamma

[L4XIA]

when I type in' gamma' and 'Gamma', it outputs the same Greek capitalized gamma ' Γ '

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[dilijev]

There is probably a way to fix this, but I'll at least explain why this happens:

"gamma" is the gamma function, which is why it is displayed as the capital Gamma (' Γ ') the traditional notation. Try: gamma(n) [it should equal (n-1)! -- so gamma(6)=120]

Unfortunately the workaround, to use %gamma to define a different variable that would be replaced by lowercase gamma, can't be used as a variable, because, like %pi, it is a "declared numeric quantity".

For "Gamma", it is correctly replacing with the capital letter, as expected.

[dilijev]

@andrejv is there any way this behavior could be enhanced so that greek letters can be used when they don't refer to named quantities or functions?

[rrogers]

There is another problem with this: both gamma() and Gamma() produce the same expression in the pane but when "copy latex" is done the result is \gamma and \Gamma; producing two different displays in Latex.