Some people have a perennial problem with unicode in source files, and would prefer to simply never deal with that. We have two interesting precedents inside the julia language to deal with that: String literals permit unicode escapes, like "\u00b5 is a greek letter". In other words, unicode hate…

Incidentally, while the examples in this topic are about LaTeX math, note that Unicode has been a boon to speakers of languages other than English. I am not sure which other languages you speak/write, but maybe you are aware of the mess with various encodings etc that preceded unicode and specifica…

[image] foobar_lv2: Do your git mergetools support \alpha<TAB> @sijo @mbauman ? I use vim for that so yes. You give a good example with the Julia Discourse: I also find it annoying that Unicode aliases are not available there. I copy-paste from a Julia REPL in these cases, not ideal but stil…

[image] Tamas_Papp: But (again), other IDE’s support LaTeX entry just fine. I think VS Code does, too, but I have no personal experience with it. I’m not saying that IDE support for julia or latex is bad. I’m saying that it is perfectly possible to edit latex sources or 90+% of julia sources…

[image] foobar_lv2: The editing experience without specialized tooling is part of the of “plain” in “plaintext”. This just tells me that many editors are too primitive support plain text. I frankly find that unacceptable, and think that sort of editors should be abandoned. (BTW, my name cont…

[image] Tamas_Papp: Incidentally, while the examples in this topic are about LaTeX math, note that Unicode has been a boon to speakers of languages other than English. I am not sure which other languages you speak/write, but maybe you are aware of the mess with various encodings etc that preced…

The analogy with TeX only really makes sense to me if there existed \commands with unicode in them and there was an alternate way to call those. Your post isn’t about ways of outputting unicode with ASCII stand-ins (which as you note Julia’s string syntax can do), but rather about ways to refer to u…

[image] foobar_lv2: And I see no significant appreciation in the community for the annoyances that this causes, and for the need of comprehensive tooling around this. Perhaps that is because they are aware of tooling that exists, and are using it. Maybe you could invest in exploring that too. …

[image] Tamas_Papp: Most OSs these days do not require that you pick a single keyboard layout from a predefined list: you can extend, mix, switch, etc. I only know about Linux but I would be surprised if OS X didn’t have anything like this Here’s what I’m using: The "U.S. International - Scie…

[image] goerz: Here’s what I’m using: The "U.S. International - Scientific" Keyboard Layout - Michael Goerz Impressive!

Oh my goodness, that’s awesome. I’ve long used a custom DefaultKeybindings.dict file to achieve this (as well as adding additional emacs-like cursor/editing actions), but that only works in some applications. It looks like your link to Ukelele is broken on your blog — it’s here: Ukelele - SIL Lang…

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