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envelope-from=Leo.Butler@umanitoba.ca; helo=CAN01-TO1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com X-Spam_score_int: -10 X-Spam_score: -1.1 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, PDS_HP_HELO_NORDNS=0.001, RDNS_NONE=0.793, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:134922 Archived-At: Eduardo Ochs writes: > On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 11:55, Leo Butler 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