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From: Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca>
To: Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: input methods for mathematical glyphs
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2021 11:39:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r2l4qzs.fsf@t14.reltub.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADs++6hEPJw24f9dy9WrA-Q6PmZX=sG5=ocn0gbG4G0iJuLWVA@mail.gmail.com> (Eduardo Ochs's message of "Thu, 9 Dec 2021 13:06:50 -0300")

Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 11:55, Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Eduardo, Thanks for the pointer to your work. It looks very
>> accessible and much closer to my wants than the TeX input method. I
>> wonder if you have an idea of how difficult it would be to extend it to
>> include all (or almost all) glyphs found here:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_operators_and_symbols_in_Unicode
>
> Hi Leo,
> that wouldn't be practical because you would have to choose a two-character
> abbreviation for each of all these unicode characters. But it would be easy
> to add, say, 200 characters, and then add others when you need to...
>   [[]], E.

Hi Eduardo,
Yes, thanks for confirming my suspicion. It might be preferable to allow
an arbitrarily long sequence of characters (3 or 4 should suffice), to
accomodate the larger number of symblols.

Do you have this code in a public repo somewhere?

Leo



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-09 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-08 16:40 input methods for mathematical glyphs Leo Butler
2021-12-08 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-08 19:52   ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-12-08 23:15     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-09  5:20       ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-12-09 10:03         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-10  5:49           ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-12-10  5:58             ` Po Lu
2021-12-10 13:18               ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-10 17:08                 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-12-10 17:28                   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-10 17:34                     ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-12-08 20:07   ` Leo Butler
2021-12-08 20:15     ` André A. Gomes
2021-12-09 14:24       ` Leo Butler
2021-12-08 20:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-08 20:42   ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-09 14:26     ` Leo Butler
2021-12-08 18:33 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-08 18:38   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-08 18:43   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-09  3:05     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-08 19:41 ` André A. Gomes
2021-12-08 23:11   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-09 14:08     ` André A. Gomes
2021-12-09 14:24       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-09 22:06         ` André A. Gomes
2021-12-08 20:35 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-12-08 21:59   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-12-09 14:55   ` Leo Butler
2021-12-09 16:06     ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-12-09 16:22       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-09 17:39       ` Leo Butler [this message]
2021-12-09 18:21         ` Eduardo Ochs

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