I was taking notes for my biochemistry class, particularly the topic of carbonyl condensations which involve α-carbons and α-hydrogens. Decided to turn those into rems, but when I hit Ctrl+Enter it changes the “α” symbol into “A”. It would be quite useful if I could have rems with special symbols like that.
Here’s what’s happening: If I’m not wrong, you tried to make α-carbons a concept, or something similar.
Concepts in RemNote begin with capital letters - this applies to special characters as well.
α is actually in lower case. In upper case, it’s A.
A workaround could be to type, for example, ~ before α. It’s not the neatest, but we do something similar with Universal Descriptors, and it works fine because ~ has no upper/lower case.
It’s because rem created from the search (Ctrl + Enter) are capitalized by default. And anisha is right: A capital Alpha looks exactly like a latin A. E.g. check it here: https://www.fontspace.com/unicode/analyzer#e=zrHOkUE
You can turn off this behavior in the settings:
Implemented in RemNote 1.4 