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> Also, do you mind if I ask how you are entering Greek letters directly? I've setup my keyboard (on linux) so that the CAPS-LOCK key acts as a "dead greek" composer. If I press "CAPSLOCK+a" it types "α", and so on. > Do you think the spelled out "alpha" should map to the same thing as " "? My unpopular opinion is that typing "alpha" should compute the product of the five values, equivalent to "a^2lph".
> I've setup my keyboard (on linux) so that the CAPS-LOCK key acts as a "dead greek" composer. If I press "CAPSLOCK+a" it types "α", and so on. Cool! Is this because you type a lot of Greek (or math)? > My unpopular opinion is that typing "alpha" should compute the product of the five values, equivalent to "a^2lph". I wouldn't call it an unpopular opinion, that's how my physical graphing calculator worked, though it…
Just regular math, where greek letters abound. A colleague mocked me because I was "still" writing \varphi instead of φ, so I learned to type the greek letters directly.
> (...) cringes when I have to write things like "i2pi*f".
In LaTeX you would write 2πif, in a "LaTeX calculator" as yours I'd expect to be able to do so!