Re: input methods for mathematical glyphs

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Leo Butler wrote:

> 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?

Abbrevs are my first thought ... 

My second thought is a virtual keyboard and a shortcut to
enable it (say `C-h g' for "CHange to Greek" :)), that
keyboard will then take over the normal keyboard so if you
press 'd' a downcase delta will be inserted (and so on), and
either it will automatically go back to the normal keyboard at
that point after insertion, _or_ you'd have to do `C-h g'
again for it to return ...

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