From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: input methods for mathematical glyphs Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:18:06 +0200 Message-ID: <83bl1rvwvl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87czm76of1.fsf@t14.reltub.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27903"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 18:18:52 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mv0ah-00073i-9m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:18:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48926 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mv0ag-0007Dt-5Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:18:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mv0aF-0007BS-Pf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:18:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=38174 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mv0aF-0008L0-IN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:18:23 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=xRwp/lIEk7zi/SFkTnlaLCnsD9v4EHK2HoWkc2qpJDg=; b=nPy9UYndyY7m0bdSC6nc J5AmVxQzWNyecUAQAfKwrBopMMwQOSLPNEPJmyVhxoQ7J5htDdSGYg+NjZ53KJ5OkaPkabEYYEy6O rD5CSpOjSEtuOrasfNyyicz4H2HJcD+vIhzTw+3ux1uj1D747t5nL4JDgQzZcaDUTgsL3/65FV7sc +dwehuEONgsgF+Eu118kPbBI0SF4ASWEToHiCD8O4h+9/et2seAJhRYNKwV5W/WlP65V25hjF7fVW dODZflcmULg6UcuI0i+JWnpic0fmAeaVwa3xiylUT3ZPbDZAfZg+TdgtDvnUu4EksBCfFgXZDZ0Ww AQ4j2XaLTiMkIg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1085 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mv0aF-0002mu-CD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:18:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87czm76of1.fsf@t14.reltub.ca> (message from Leo Butler on Wed, 08 Dec 2021 10:40:02 -0600) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134894 Archived-At: > From: Leo Butler > Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2021 10:40:02 -0600 > > I have, for years, used abbrevs for entering greek letters (and several > other commonly-used symbols in math). As I have learned how to use > latex's support for other unicode math glyphs, I can see that my old > solution does not scale and I would like to find an input method to > easily input something like: > > #+begin_src latex > Let $𝒯 ⊂ 𝐑$, $𝒯 ≠ ∅$, be a null set... > #+end_src > > I used C-x 8 RET to do this. I am ignorant of any input method that > would do what I want (ucs may be the closest, but it only uses 4 digit > hex, and who wants to memorize 4-5 digit hex numbers?) > > Suggestions or thoughts? Did you try the 'TeX' input method? AFAIK, it was invented for these purposes.