Re: input methods for mathematical glyphs

[Leo Butler]

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