`org-entities' and `org-entities-user' come close. They need a preceding `\', which detracts a little from reading for me. (Or course, I'm hardly using org-mode to its fullest. It really is for notes, just text.)
Still, it's a big help for the moment. Thanks, Sebastien. ,Douglas Douglas Lewan Shubert Ticketing (201) 489-8600 ext 224 When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad and that's my religion. - Abraham Lincoln > -----Original Message----- > From: emacs-orgmode-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing....@gnu.org > [mailto:emacs-orgmode-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing....@gnu.org] On > Behalf Of Sebastien Vauban > Sent: Friday, 2012 December 07 13:30 > To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > Subject: Re: [O] unicode in org-mode > > Hi Doug Lewan, > > Doug Lewan wrote: > > For notes (and other things) I tend to use non-ASCII characters > fairly freely. > > (Among them the most common are: ∃ -- there is, ∀ -- every, ∈ -- in, > ∴ -- > > therefore, ≡, arrows, bullets, checks, subscripts, superscripts, > etc.) > > > > It would be nice to be able to configure org-mode to handle them > nicely. (Where "nicely" means in exactly the vague way that I want.) > > Are you aware of `org-entities' (and even `org-entities-user')? > > Don't they allow you to use such symbols for multiple back-ends, in the > way > you want? If not, please detail what the problem is... > > Best regards, > Seb > > -- > Sebastien Vauban >