Is it possible to use special characters in variable names? For all of Mathcad's reputation as being a primary math software, it's always a little frustrating that it can't seem to replicate and utilize the math notation commonly used in textbooks, reference books, etc. Many, many references will use special characters of some type in their variable names, but this seems to be next to impossible to replicate in Mathcad worksheets, so I have to use alternate naming for those variables, and then add text noting that this variable is really the one everyone is familiar with that uses a symbol in the variable name. For instance, when referencing stresses parallel and perpendicular to the plane of interest, it's not unusual to use a term like f‖ and f┴ to denote those. (See the screenshot below for how these are were supposed to look. They looked exactly like they were supposed to when I typed them, but then I hit "post" and the editor removed the "invalid HTML" [subscripts]) Anyway, symbols like that in the variable subscripts are common, clear, re