What to do if a C&M homework is in greek characters
If a student turns in a homework to you, and it is in greek characters, follow
these steps:
- Go to a Mac where you are allowed to change preferences (many lab
macs won't allow this - the one in the northwest corner of 239
altgeld will)
- Open the homework in mathematica 3.0
- Hold down the option key, and click on the cell that is in greek.
This will select all cells of that type.
- Go to the Format menu and select Option
Inspector. Then select Formatting Options
and then Font Options.
- You should see "Character Encoding----->NeXTCharacterEncoding".
Change this to "Symbol" by clicking on the arrow at the right of
that line, and selecting Symbol from that list.
- Click on the Apply button at the top of the window.
- Go back to the homework. The cells you selected should now be in
readable form. Repeat this process for other types of cells if
necessary.
If this for some reason doesn't work, email
tech@cm.math.uiuc.edu
