UnicodeMath – A Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics (2016) [pdf]

Post by gugagore » Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 3:16 PM UTC

joppy wrote: post #30

guipsp wrote: post #16

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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…

Post by enriquto » Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 4:13 PM UTC

guipsp wrote: post #18

knolan wrote: post #17

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You can on a Mac. Holding the option key allows typing a whole host of symbols. https://beebom.com/how-type-hidden-mac-keyboard-symbols/

Right, and you can do the same on linux with the compose key. But it isn't very intuitive, discoverable or rememberable.

Post by _carl_jung » Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 4:33 PM UTC

enriquto wrote: post #27

dagw wrote: post #13

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> E = m * c^2 The problem then occurs when you work in a multidisciplinary group and 'everybody' wants to use 'p' or 'c' or whatever mean the the super obvious thing it means in their field and you have to remember what each letter means in 6 different fields and the 'p' in function f means something completely different from the 'p' in function g.

> the 'p' in function f means something completely different from the 'p' in function g. And that's OK. The 'x' in mathematics means completely different things depending on the equation. That's what comments are for, to explain the meaning of the local variables on each function. // E: energy of the thing // m: mass of the thing // c: constant representing the speed of light in vacuum E = m * c^2 I cannot read multi…

Post by namarkiv » Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 4:59 PM UTC

joppy wrote: post #30

guipsp wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Post by adarsh_p » Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 5:04 PM UTC

guipsp wrote: post #16

enriquto wrote: post #10

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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.