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But you can't type α, ∂, or ∫ in a standard keyboard.
> But you can't type α, ∂, or ∫ in a standard keyboard. I have a standard keyboard and I type greek letters easily. ALTGR+a, and so on. If somebody is not able to configure their keyboard to do this they are not probably writing LaTeX, either.
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> All I know is that LaTEX is much, much easier to manage than this jumbled mess... LaTeX is beautiful and powerful, but mixed with unicode (in the right doses) it becomes astonishingly more powerful. For example, you can keep the block constructors {} _ and ^, but use unicode symbols such as α, ∂, ∫, instead of \alpha, \partial, \int
But you can't type α, ∂, or ∫ in a standard keyboard.
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i totally agree, but living in the world of mostly ascii-limited code this looks exotic, weird and refreshing. and cool
You might be interested in the Fortress language (RIP), whose input allowed, and was canonical rendered using, mathematical notation. So, for example, xˆy could be written as x superscript y. SUM[i http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/samth/fortress-spec.pdf
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i totally agree, but living in the world of mostly ascii-limited code this looks exotic, weird and refreshing. and cool
You might be interested in the Fortress language (RIP), whose input allowed, and was canonical rendered using, mathematical notation. So, for example, xˆy could be written as x superscript y. SUM[i http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/samth/fortress-spec.pdf
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But you can't type α, ∂, or ∫ in a standard keyboard.
I feel like this is the sweet spot for the editor to do some of the heavy lifting, for example being able to type "\alpha" and have the editor automatically transform it into the symbol α. I write a lot of LaTeX, and I would absolutely love an editor which could just transparently deal with all of the underlying mathematics markup so I would never have to see it again, and just directly edit the damn equations. Seria…
The big disadvantage to LyX is that it's not LaTeX editor but a LaTeX generator. So if you want to write your next article or dissertation and can commit to it then it's great, but if you want to import work so far or collaborate with someone not using LyX then it doesn't really work (it has an import function but it's almost unusable).
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But you can't type α, ∂, or ∫ in a standard keyboard.
I feel like this is the sweet spot for the editor to do some of the heavy lifting, for example being able to type "\alpha" and have the editor automatically transform it into the symbol α. I write a lot of LaTeX, and I would absolutely love an editor which could just transparently deal with all of the underlying mathematics markup so I would never have to see it again, and just directly edit the damn equations. Seria…
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> All I know is that LaTEX is much, much easier to manage than this jumbled mess... LaTeX is beautiful and powerful, but mixed with unicode (in the right doses) it becomes astonishingly more powerful. For example, you can keep the block constructors {} _ and ^, but use unicode symbols such as α, ∂, ∫, instead of \alpha, \partial, \int
But you can't type α, ∂, or ∫ in a standard keyboard.
As long as you don't need caps lock as your escape key...
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I feel like this is the sweet spot for the editor to do some of the heavy lifting, for example being able to type "\alpha" and have the editor automatically transform it into the symbol α. I write a lot of LaTeX, and I would absolutely love an editor which could just transparently deal with all of the underlying mathematics markup so I would never have to see it again, and just directly edit the damn equations. Seria…
In case you haven't already heard of it, LyX [1] does exactly that and it's phenominal. As an added bonus, when you move your cursor out of the equation it goes from a graphical almost-right visualisation to a proper LaTeX-generated absolutely-right preview, and manages other related LaTeX things like heading levels with a live clickable outline. The big disadvantage to LyX is that it's not LaTeX editor but a LaTeX g…
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This is like asking someone to use Alt codes ( https://www.alt-codes.net/ ) on Windows, it's highly unintuitive and cumbersome.
They aren’t terribly intuitive, but they are much easier than alt-codes. If you’re a touch typist it doesn’t take long to memorize a reasonable number of symbol positions. I still can’t temember any alt-codes though when I’m on a windows machine.
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But you can't type α, ∂, or ∫ in a standard keyboard.
I feel like this is the sweet spot for the editor to do some of the heavy lifting, for example being able to type "\alpha" and have the editor automatically transform it into the symbol α. I write a lot of LaTeX, and I would absolutely love an editor which could just transparently deal with all of the underlying mathematics markup so I would never have to see it again, and just directly edit the damn equations. Seria…