Re: input methods for mathematical glyphs

[Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca>]

André A. Gomes <andremegafone@gmail.com> writes:

> Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>>> From: Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> Yes, I have and ucs, too.
>>
>> If I do
>>
>> M-x list-input-methods RET
>>
>> search for and select TeX, the *Help* buffer is populated by a large
>> number of supported glyphs. When I search for 𝒯 (or 𝐑), it is not
>> found. It looks like there is some large, but limited number of glyphs
>> that are supported, but many are not.   ;-(
>
> Take a look at /path/to/emacs/sources/lisp/leim/quail/latin.ltx.el.

André, thank you for the pointer to latin-ltx.el. I think I can see,
roughly, how to add the functionality I want.

Leo