General ⇒ How can I get \frac to accept Greek letters?

[auntmooshka]

I am using Texmaker and trying to write fractions with Greek letters in the numerator.
I've tried variations of \frac{$\pi$}{2} without any success, while \frac seems happy to accept numbers and/English letters.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated by this newbie.

[gmedina]

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\begin{document}
text text $\frac{\pi}{2}$ text text text text $\dfrac{\pi}{2}$ text text text text text text
\[
  \frac{\pi}{2}
\]
text text text text 
\begin{equation}
  \frac{\pi}{2}
\end{equation}

\end{document}

The lshort and l2tabu documents can be useful and also the user guide of the amsmath package .

[auntmooshka]

My sincerest thanks!