Re: input methods for mathematical glyphs

[Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com>]

Hi Leo,

many many many years ago I tried to add my own characters to existing
input methods, failed miserably, and wrote my own way to do that - in
which if I typed `M-, char1 char2' the two chars would be "composed"
using a table that was easy to edit, and the result would be inserted.
In june of this year I rewrote my definition for `M-,' to make it
support compose tables written in a better format, and it became this:

  http://angg.twu.net/eev-current/eev-compose-hash.el
  http://angg.twu.net/eev-current/eev-compose-hash.el.html

The new version can also generate definitions for these characters in
a format that lualatex accepts,

  http://angg.twu.net/LATEX/edrx21chars.tex
  http://angg.twu.net/LATEX/edrx21chars.tex.html

and in a format that pdflatex accepts:

  http://angg.twu.net/LATEX/edrx21chars-d.tex
  http://angg.twu.net/LATEX/edrx21chars-d.tex.html

If you can't make the standard ways work, get in touch! =)

  Cheers,
    Eduardo Ochs
    http://angg.twu.net/#eev

On Wed, 8 Dec 2021 at 14:02, Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> 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?
>
> TIA,
> Leo
>