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[Vamos, Peter]

George,

> On 18 Dec 2015, at 22:05, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
> 
> My lattice book is almost ready. For maps I use functional notation:
> 
> \alpha(x)
> 
> etc. I’m thinking of changing it to a simple prefix:
> 
> \alpha x 
> 
> This is easy to do, except that there are a few thousand instances of
> 
> \alpha'(x)
> 
> \alpha(x_2)
> 
> and so on.
> 
> How could I get the job done the best way? 

I would use grep. It is getting late here (UK) and my grep is rusty but I am sure there are plenty of people on this list who could cook up the code for you.

Peter