Re: Changing into greek glyphs in texinfo-mode

[Gregory Heytings]

> Does anybody have a strategy how to do this thing?  I do not think I 
> should do a replacement, only for display, which I can turn on or off.

Follow Stefan's advice:

(add-hook 'texinfo-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (push '("\\alpha" . ?α) prettify-symbols-alist)
            (push '("\\beta" . ?β) prettify-symbols-alist)))

This only affects the way "\alpha" and "\beta" are displayed, and you can 
turn it on or off with M-x prettify-symbols-mode .  If you want to turn it 
on by default, do:

(add-hook 'texinfo-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (push '("\\alpha" . ?α) prettify-symbols-alist)
            (push '("\\beta" . ?β) prettify-symbols-alist)
            (prettify-symbols-mode)))