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I don't know how you would type those characters though, other than auto complete from the TeX commands?

amathprof 10y ago
Yeah, the original design philosophy of AsciiMath was to make that input symbol something in ASCII that looks kind of like the desired symbol. The idea of supporting Unicode as an alternative is reasonable idea and probably one we should look at (feel free to make a pull request).
- devereaux 10y ago
  I see unicode as both an alternative rendering for text based devices, and an alternative input (because on my keyboard, the right Alt key followed by a gives me α, which is faster than typing alpha)
devereaux 10y ago
A couple of ideas: - Keyboard shortcuts, like for diacritics on european keyboards. - On screen keyboard, like for phones and tablets. But entry is not the important part - rendering is.
- thomasahle 10y ago
  > But entry is not the important part - rendering is. If that was true, TeX already has us covered.
  - devereaux 10y ago
    TeX does not render in my email, in hacker news, in reddit, in ascii files (that I edit with leafpad or vim or anything else depending on my needs)
cben 10y ago
Yeah, TeX name autocomplete or better yet free unicode description search triggered by \ is the obvious direction. (think github emoji search, like how :ship also offers :anchor: and :package:) https://kasperpeulen.github.io/PressAndHold/Unicode/ https://kasperpeulen.github.io/PressAndHold/Unicode/ was a novel attempt. [source: https://github.com/kasperpeulen/PressAndHold https://github.com/kasperpeulen/PressAndHold] The trick is you long-press any letter, e.g. press Shift+A and don't release => you get a popup offering 𝐴 ∀ 𝒜 𝔄 (use arrors & Enter to select) Long-pressing letters is amusingly unnatural, I have to make a conscious effor :-) Apropos unicode notations, that demo was made for https://github.com/kasperpeulen/CoffeeTeX https://github.com/kasperpeulen/CoffeeTeX, a unicode AsciiMath-inspired notation.

Yeah, the original design philosophy of AsciiMath was to make that input symbol something in ASCII that looks kind of like the desired symbol. The idea of supporting Unicode as an alternative is reasonable idea and probably one we should look at (feel free to make a pull request).

devereaux 10y ago
I see unicode as both an alternative rendering for text based devices, and an alternative input (because on my keyboard, the right Alt key followed by a gives me α, which is faster than typing alpha)

devereaux 10y ago

A couple of ideas: - Keyboard shortcuts, like for diacritics on european keyboards. - On screen keyboard, like for phones and tablets. But entry is not the important part - rendering is.

thomasahle 10y ago
> But entry is not the important part - rendering is. If that was true, TeX already has us covered.
- devereaux 10y ago
  TeX does not render in my email, in hacker news, in reddit, in ascii files (that I edit with leafpad or vim or anything else depending on my needs)

cben 10y ago

Yeah, TeX name autocomplete or better yet free unicode description search triggered by \ is the obvious direction. (think github emoji search, like how :ship also offers :anchor: and :package:) https://kasperpeulen.github.io/PressAndHold/Unicode/ https://kasperpeulen.github.io/PressAndHold/Unicode/ was a novel attempt. [source: https://github.com/kasperpeulen/PressAndHold https://github.com/kasperpeulen/PressAndHold] The trick is you long-press any letter, e.g. press Shift+A and don't release => you get a popup offering 𝐴 ∀ 𝒜 𝔄 (use arrors & Enter to select) Long-pressing letters is amusingly unnatural, I have to make a conscious effor :-) Apropos unicode notations, that demo was made for https://github.com/kasperpeulen/CoffeeTeX https://github.com/kasperpeulen/CoffeeTeX, a unicode AsciiMath-inspired notation.