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A Mathematical Keyboard Layout (2018)

76 points by susam 6y ago

fogof 6y ago
> I can’t stand using a hyphen to mean negative or subtract I wonder what the difference is. Maybe in unicode one is slightly longer than the other, but at the end of the day, aren't they both just a horizontal line?
- Skeime 6y ago
  In proportional fonts, the minus sign is significantly longer and usually slightly higher and thinner than the hyphen (so it lines up with the horizontal bar of the + sign). If you’re used to it, it looks much better than a hyphen. (Similar to using real quotation marks instead of the straight ones etc.)
- susam 6y ago
  Compare the following two examples: 5 − 2 = 3 5 - 2 = 3 The first one is correct. It contains the Unicode character 'MINUS SIGN' (U+2212). The second contains the Unicode character 'HYPHEN-MINUS' (U+002D) which is not suitable for representing the minus sign in mathematical typesetting. Also, see https://i.imgur.com/ngFI3JB.png https://i.imgur.com/ngFI3JB.png for a few examples typeset with MathJax. The first example has a proper minus sign (correct) whereas the second one contains a hyphen (incorrect). By the way, in plain HTML, the character entity reference "−" displays the minus sign, although I just use MathJax when proper mathematics typesetting is required in HTML pages.
- a1369209993 6y ago
  > I wonder what the difference is. A properly rendered minus is identical to the horizontal stroke of a plus (whereas hyphen is frequently shorter and/or incorrectly vertically aligned).
hyperjeff 6y ago
Some nice symbol selection here. It’s a great thing to customize your keyboard layout. On the Mac side, there’s a nice tool called Ukelele: https://software.sil.org/ukelele/ https://software.sil.org/ukelele/
- 2grep 6y ago
  Ukelele is one of those amazing apps that you love more the less you use it. I've been using this keyboard as my daily driver since 2007: https://github.com/2grep/ScienceNotes https://github.com/2grep/ScienceNotes
oddlama 6y ago
The older neo keyboard layout and its newer variants like bone (https://neo-layout.org/Layouts/bone https://neo-layout.org/Layouts/bone) follow a similar approach to provide more symbols, and they're additionally optimized for typing. These layouts provide several additional layers which give easy access to ASCII special characters, greek letters and frequently used math symbols. Also there is layer 4, which is pure gold in itself. It provides cursor movement keys, backspace, enter and a numpad close to your home position. I personally couldn't go back once I had tried it. (Beware that these layouts include the umlauts äöüß as they were designed for german writing, and make use of the additional key for '<' in the lower left corner of german keyboards)
layer8 6y ago
Nice. An alternative is to use a Compose key. I have Caps Lock mapped to Compose, and for example Compose-g-D yields “Δ” (“greek D”) and Compose-<-= yields “≤”, etc.
- ducktective 6y ago
  Are you using a custom `.compose` in your home? If so, doesn't it incur delay in other xkb functionalities (loading a custom file from ~) How do you type ∂ (Unicode: U+2202)?
  - leephillips 6y ago
    I use the Compose file for this as well, in addition to configuring a “dead Greek” key for quick access to the Greek αλφαβετ. I even have a few phrases, such as my email address, in there: works everywhere, from my editor to text boxes on websites. There are no delays.
  - layer8 6y ago
    I use WinCompose (on Windows 10) with a custom .XCompose file. I don’t use ∂, but if I would I’d probably bind it to Compose-p-d for “partial differential”. The default bindings are Compose-Compose-p-a-r-t and Compose-*-.-.-d, which isn’t very convenient.
- leoc 6y ago
  On Win10 the quick and dirty solution is to select a character on its own, copy it to the clipboard, then, in your clipboard history, pin that particular selection. Nearly every time you use it you'll have to scroll to the bottom of your clipboard history and then probably back up again a bit, but that's not all that bad. Of course you HAVE already turned on your Windows 10 clipboard history, RIGHT? ;) https://www.howtogeek.com/671222/how-to-enable-and-use-clipboard-history-on-windows-10/ https://www.howtogeek.com/671222/how-to-enable-and-use-clipb...
  - moonchild 6y ago
    There is an implementation of xcompose for windows. I think it's called 'wincompose' or something like that.
vander_elst 6y ago
I guess a possibility would also be to use one of these https://ergodox-ez.com/ https://ergodox-ez.com/. They allow quite some customization.
reaperducer 6y ago
This has inspired me to try to make my own custom keyboard. Does anyone know of a good keyboard remapping tool for the Mac? I have BetterTouchTool, but I've found it's not reliable on my machine. (And probably other people's machines, which is why it includes a "Restart" option in its menu.) I like the keyboard company the article links to, but the keyboards it offers don't have the full range of function keys that macOS supports (It's four short). Are there other custom-printed keyboard companies I should consider?
- kps 6y ago
  If you want to do something like the article, with a custom layout (e.g. defining characters for Option and Shift+Option), then what you want (as hyperjeff mentioned above) is Ukelele https://software.sil.org/ukelele/ https://software.sil.org/ukelele/
- bradrn 6y ago
  To port my keyboard layout [0] to OSX, I used ‘osxkb’ [1], which outputs an OSX keyboard layout bundle given a simple textual specification file. It was originally created specifically to port Conkey to OSX, but should be entirely usable for other purposes as well. [0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey [1] https://github.com/akamchinjir/osxkb https://github.com/akamchinjir/osxkb
- limeblack 6y ago
  > Are there other custom-printed keyboard companies I should consider? Get a clear or white keyboard cover. As a last resort spray paint one white.
- remolueoend 6y ago
  Depending on your version of MacOS, I'd recommend Karabiner-Elements for remapping: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/ https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
joeman1000 6y ago
I like the approach that the AUCTeX and/or CDLaTeX modes in emacs take: if I want Greek letters or math symbols, I hit the backtick, then the mnemonic or binding for the Greek symbol/operator I want. I know you can’t extend this to Twitter or something, but I would never want to anyway. (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/11.88-extra/tex-ref.pdf https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/11.88-extra/tex-ref.pdf)
jake-low 6y ago
Very cool that the author had a custom keyboard made with their keymap printed on it. Personally I like being able to type math symbols on occasion but don't do so often enough to benefit from a custom keyboard layout that I'd then have to memorize. I didn't have a good way to do this until about a year ago, when I learned about Espanso [1] which is a cross-platform text expander. I installed it and set it up to substitute various (vaguely LaTeX-inspired) macros to UTF-8 strings. For example, typing the following keystrokes x = R cos(:phi) sin(:lambda :minus :lambda:nought) becomes x = R cos(φ) sin(λ − λ₀) I chose ':' as a prefix for all my macros but this is just a self-enforced convention; you can configure a substitution for any sequence of keystrokes. Since I gave all the characters names that made sense to me, I don't have to think much when I type them. A few of the substitutions I get the most mileage out of: - The Greek alphabet, both upper and lowercase (:theta → θ and :Omega → Ω) - Double-struck letters for numerical sets; e.g. :RR → ℝ - :infinity → ∞ - :neq → ≠ - :pm → ± [1]: https://github.com/federico-terzi/espanso https://github.com/federico-terzi/espanso
- mkl 6y ago
  I do something similar with espanso on Linux, but I chose / instead of :, and my commands are mostly Latex commands. On Windows I do it with AutoHotKey. I have superscript and subscript numbers too.
- ziotom78 6y ago
  Thank you for having let me discover Espanso, it's exactly what I needed!
bradrn 6y ago
I wrote myself a very similar keyboard layout a while ago: https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey. It differs in being primarily oriented towards linguistics rather than maths, but I’ve ended up being able to type almost a superset of the same symbols that this one allows. Aside from this, the main difference appears to be that Lengyel’s keyboard layout is more ergonomic, at the cost of allowing less symbols.
leoc 6y ago
Obligatory old-timers the APL keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#/media/File:APL-keybd2.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#/me... and the Symbolics LM-2 "space cadet" keyboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard#/media/File:Space-cadet.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard#/media/Fi... It seems that Dyalog is selling new keyboards for its APL, too: https://www.dyalog.com/apl-font-keyboard.htm https://www.dyalog.com/apl-font-keyboard.htm https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/images/Business/products/us_rc.jpg https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/images/Business/products/us_r... .
- sedachv 6y ago
  Get the real deal: https://www.pckeyboard.com https://www.pckeyboard.com You can get an APL keycap set for your existing Unicomp keyboard, or do a custom order for any of their models. They will even print you custom keycap sets: https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/Buttons https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/Buttons The trackball Unicomp is IMO the best keyboard being manufactured (right now they are out of stock until Q3 2021): https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/ClassicTrackball https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/ClassicTrackball Buckling spring is just a superior (although less durable) key switch technology than the Honeywell switches used in Symbolics keyboards (and most other keyboard switch mechanisms as well). One thing that the Symbolics keyboards did right is having both the APL and Greek legends on keycaps. But none of this matters if you do not have the right software. GNU Emacs greek and TeX input-methods, and the C-x 8 iso-transl keymap (which you can extend) makes writing mathematical symbols really easy.
chewxy 6y ago
C-x-8-RET has been most useful to me for unicode maths symbols. Having said that, I have a layer on my keyboard dedicated to APL symbols. I highly recommend QMK keyboards for shennanigans like these
divbzero 6y ago
What about a keyboard layout for programming? Dedicated keys for “if”, “for”, parentheses, braces, etc? This can’t be that hard to set up, there must be plugins in Vim, Emacs, and others.
- fstarship 6y ago
  What advantage would this have over snippets?
- notagoodidea 6y ago
  Could be done with qmk and any mechanical keyboard supporting it (and much more but it is common to hear about people having a vim layer).
- Talinx 6y ago
  There's Programmer Dvorak with dedicated keys for ";", "{", "}", "[" and more.
BlueTemplar 6y ago
The new official French AZERTY standard is pretty good too : http://norme-azerty.fr/en/ http://norme-azerty.fr/en/ Hopefully the various administrations will start to push it to replace old keyboards... There's also a BÉPO version, which would have been even better, but I guess that would be too much inertia to fight?
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codethief 6y ago
I wrote myself a small plugin for Sublime Text that allows me to enter common math symbols as unicode characters by virtue of a selection popup. So, for instance, I hit Ctrl+m, type "subs" (for subset – it does fuzzy matching), hit enter et voilà, I get "⊂". Finally, math in LaTeX is no longer a pain to read! While it works very nicely, it's of course unavailable outside Sublime, so I've been looking for alternatives and came across the following projects: https://github.com/ibus/ibus https://github.com/ibus/ibus (example: https://github.com/sphaerophoria/ibus-memebox https://github.com/sphaerophoria/ibus-memebox) https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji/ https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji/ Hopefully at some point I'll find the time to adapt them to my purposes.
jbj 6y ago
interesting, the "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator" MSKLC seems to be moved, I just downloaded it one month ago to setup US English Internaitional to be identical as what is found on linux. New link is here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=102134 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=102... Remember to turn on windows features for old .NET before you install MSKLC
lfnoise 6y ago
no division symbol ÷ ?

76 points by susam 6y ago

> I can’t stand using a hyphen to mean negative or subtract I wonder what the difference is. Maybe in unicode one is slightly longer than the other, but at the end of the day, aren't they both just a horizontal line?

Skeime 6y ago
In proportional fonts, the minus sign is significantly longer and usually slightly higher and thinner than the hyphen (so it lines up with the horizontal bar of the + sign). If you’re used to it, it looks much better than a hyphen. (Similar to using real quotation marks instead of the straight ones etc.)
susam 6y ago
Compare the following two examples: 5 − 2 = 3 5 - 2 = 3 The first one is correct. It contains the Unicode character 'MINUS SIGN' (U+2212). The second contains the Unicode character 'HYPHEN-MINUS' (U+002D) which is not suitable for representing the minus sign in mathematical typesetting. Also, see https://i.imgur.com/ngFI3JB.png https://i.imgur.com/ngFI3JB.png for a few examples typeset with MathJax. The first example has a proper minus sign (correct) whereas the second one contains a hyphen (incorrect). By the way, in plain HTML, the character entity reference "−" displays the minus sign, although I just use MathJax when proper mathematics typesetting is required in HTML pages.
a1369209993 6y ago
> I wonder what the difference is. A properly rendered minus is identical to the horizontal stroke of a plus (whereas hyphen is frequently shorter and/or incorrectly vertically aligned).

hyperjeff 6y ago

Some nice symbol selection here. It’s a great thing to customize your keyboard layout. On the Mac side, there’s a nice tool called Ukelele: https://software.sil.org/ukelele/ https://software.sil.org/ukelele/

2grep 6y ago
Ukelele is one of those amazing apps that you love more the less you use it. I've been using this keyboard as my daily driver since 2007: https://github.com/2grep/ScienceNotes https://github.com/2grep/ScienceNotes

oddlama 6y ago

The older neo keyboard layout and its newer variants like bone (https://neo-layout.org/Layouts/bone https://neo-layout.org/Layouts/bone) follow a similar approach to provide more symbols, and they're additionally optimized for typing. These layouts provide several additional layers which give easy access to ASCII special characters, greek letters and frequently used math symbols. Also there is layer 4, which is pure gold in itself. It provides cursor movement keys, backspace, enter and a numpad close to your home position. I personally couldn't go back once I had tried it. (Beware that these layouts include the umlauts äöüß as they were designed for german writing, and make use of the additional key for '<' in the lower left corner of german keyboards)

layer8 6y ago

Nice. An alternative is to use a Compose key. I have Caps Lock mapped to Compose, and for example Compose-g-D yields “Δ” (“greek D”) and Compose-<-= yields “≤”, etc.

ducktective 6y ago
Are you using a custom `.compose` in your home? If so, doesn't it incur delay in other xkb functionalities (loading a custom file from ~) How do you type ∂ (Unicode: U+2202)?
- leephillips 6y ago
  I use the Compose file for this as well, in addition to configuring a “dead Greek” key for quick access to the Greek αλφαβετ. I even have a few phrases, such as my email address, in there: works everywhere, from my editor to text boxes on websites. There are no delays.
- layer8 6y ago
  I use WinCompose (on Windows 10) with a custom .XCompose file. I don’t use ∂, but if I would I’d probably bind it to Compose-p-d for “partial differential”. The default bindings are Compose-Compose-p-a-r-t and Compose-*-.-.-d, which isn’t very convenient.
leoc 6y ago
On Win10 the quick and dirty solution is to select a character on its own, copy it to the clipboard, then, in your clipboard history, pin that particular selection. Nearly every time you use it you'll have to scroll to the bottom of your clipboard history and then probably back up again a bit, but that's not all that bad. Of course you HAVE already turned on your Windows 10 clipboard history, RIGHT? ;) https://www.howtogeek.com/671222/how-to-enable-and-use-clipboard-history-on-windows-10/ https://www.howtogeek.com/671222/how-to-enable-and-use-clipb...
- moonchild 6y ago
  There is an implementation of xcompose for windows. I think it's called 'wincompose' or something like that.

vander_elst 6y ago

I guess a possibility would also be to use one of these https://ergodox-ez.com/ https://ergodox-ez.com/. They allow quite some customization.

reaperducer 6y ago

This has inspired me to try to make my own custom keyboard. Does anyone know of a good keyboard remapping tool for the Mac? I have BetterTouchTool, but I've found it's not reliable on my machine. (And probably other people's machines, which is why it includes a "Restart" option in its menu.) I like the keyboard company the article links to, but the keyboards it offers don't have the full range of function keys that macOS supports (It's four short). Are there other custom-printed keyboard companies I should consider?

kps 6y ago
If you want to do something like the article, with a custom layout (e.g. defining characters for Option and Shift+Option), then what you want (as hyperjeff mentioned above) is Ukelele https://software.sil.org/ukelele/ https://software.sil.org/ukelele/
bradrn 6y ago
To port my keyboard layout [0] to OSX, I used ‘osxkb’ [1], which outputs an OSX keyboard layout bundle given a simple textual specification file. It was originally created specifically to port Conkey to OSX, but should be entirely usable for other purposes as well. [0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey [1] https://github.com/akamchinjir/osxkb https://github.com/akamchinjir/osxkb
limeblack 6y ago
> Are there other custom-printed keyboard companies I should consider? Get a clear or white keyboard cover. As a last resort spray paint one white.
remolueoend 6y ago
Depending on your version of MacOS, I'd recommend Karabiner-Elements for remapping: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/ https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/

joeman1000 6y ago

I like the approach that the AUCTeX and/or CDLaTeX modes in emacs take: if I want Greek letters or math symbols, I hit the backtick, then the mnemonic or binding for the Greek symbol/operator I want. I know you can’t extend this to Twitter or something, but I would never want to anyway. (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/11.88-extra/tex-ref.pdf https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/11.88-extra/tex-ref.pdf)

jake-low 6y ago

Very cool that the author had a custom keyboard made with their keymap printed on it. Personally I like being able to type math symbols on occasion but don't do so often enough to benefit from a custom keyboard layout that I'd then have to memorize. I didn't have a good way to do this until about a year ago, when I learned about Espanso [1] which is a cross-platform text expander. I installed it and set it up to substitute various (vaguely LaTeX-inspired) macros to UTF-8 strings. For example, typing the following keystrokes x = R cos(:phi) sin(:lambda :minus :lambda:nought) becomes x = R cos(φ) sin(λ − λ₀) I chose ':' as a prefix for all my macros but this is just a self-enforced convention; you can configure a substitution for any sequence of keystrokes. Since I gave all the characters names that made sense to me, I don't have to think much when I type them. A few of the substitutions I get the most mileage out of: - The Greek alphabet, both upper and lowercase (:theta → θ and :Omega → Ω) - Double-struck letters for numerical sets; e.g. :RR → ℝ - :infinity → ∞ - :neq → ≠ - :pm → ± [1]: https://github.com/federico-terzi/espanso https://github.com/federico-terzi/espanso

mkl 6y ago
I do something similar with espanso on Linux, but I chose / instead of :, and my commands are mostly Latex commands. On Windows I do it with AutoHotKey. I have superscript and subscript numbers too.
ziotom78 6y ago
Thank you for having let me discover Espanso, it's exactly what I needed!

bradrn 6y ago

I wrote myself a very similar keyboard layout a while ago: https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey. It differs in being primarily oriented towards linguistics rather than maths, but I’ve ended up being able to type almost a superset of the same symbols that this one allows. Aside from this, the main difference appears to be that Lengyel’s keyboard layout is more ergonomic, at the cost of allowing less symbols.

leoc 6y ago

Obligatory old-timers the APL keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#/media/File:APL-keybd2.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#/me... and the Symbolics LM-2 "space cadet" keyboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard#/media/File:Space-cadet.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard#/media/Fi... It seems that Dyalog is selling new keyboards for its APL, too: https://www.dyalog.com/apl-font-keyboard.htm https://www.dyalog.com/apl-font-keyboard.htm https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/images/Business/products/us_rc.jpg https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/images/Business/products/us_r... .

sedachv 6y ago
Get the real deal: https://www.pckeyboard.com https://www.pckeyboard.com You can get an APL keycap set for your existing Unicomp keyboard, or do a custom order for any of their models. They will even print you custom keycap sets: https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/Buttons https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/Buttons The trackball Unicomp is IMO the best keyboard being manufactured (right now they are out of stock until Q3 2021): https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/ClassicTrackball https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/ClassicTrackball Buckling spring is just a superior (although less durable) key switch technology than the Honeywell switches used in Symbolics keyboards (and most other keyboard switch mechanisms as well). One thing that the Symbolics keyboards did right is having both the APL and Greek legends on keycaps. But none of this matters if you do not have the right software. GNU Emacs greek and TeX input-methods, and the C-x 8 iso-transl keymap (which you can extend) makes writing mathematical symbols really easy.

chewxy 6y ago

C-x-8-RET has been most useful to me for unicode maths symbols. Having said that, I have a layer on my keyboard dedicated to APL symbols. I highly recommend QMK keyboards for shennanigans like these

divbzero 6y ago

What about a keyboard layout for programming? Dedicated keys for “if”, “for”, parentheses, braces, etc? This can’t be that hard to set up, there must be plugins in Vim, Emacs, and others.

fstarship 6y ago
What advantage would this have over snippets?
notagoodidea 6y ago
Could be done with qmk and any mechanical keyboard supporting it (and much more but it is common to hear about people having a vim layer).
Talinx 6y ago
There's Programmer Dvorak with dedicated keys for ";", "{", "}", "[" and more.

BlueTemplar 6y ago

The new official French AZERTY standard is pretty good too : http://norme-azerty.fr/en/ http://norme-azerty.fr/en/ Hopefully the various administrations will start to push it to replace old keyboards... There's also a BÉPO version, which would have been even better, but I guess that would be too much inertia to fight?

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- dang 6y ago
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- BlueTemplar 6y ago
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codethief 6y ago

I wrote myself a small plugin for Sublime Text that allows me to enter common math symbols as unicode characters by virtue of a selection popup. So, for instance, I hit Ctrl+m, type "subs" (for subset – it does fuzzy matching), hit enter et voilà, I get "⊂". Finally, math in LaTeX is no longer a pain to read! While it works very nicely, it's of course unavailable outside Sublime, so I've been looking for alternatives and came across the following projects: https://github.com/ibus/ibus https://github.com/ibus/ibus (example: https://github.com/sphaerophoria/ibus-memebox https://github.com/sphaerophoria/ibus-memebox) https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji/ https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji/ Hopefully at some point I'll find the time to adapt them to my purposes.

jbj 6y ago

interesting, the "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator" MSKLC seems to be moved, I just downloaded it one month ago to setup US English Internaitional to be identical as what is found on linux. New link is here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=102134 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=102... Remember to turn on windows features for old .NET before you install MSKLC

lfnoise 6y ago

no division symbol ÷ ?