Thanks Stefan. I did find out that I can type \alpha<tab> for Unicode α. My point was more to do with the "traditional" input / output mode.
btw if I am not mistaken I think in markup mode the \alpha<tab> does not work. I guess not even auto complete works in markup mode when pressed tab. May be I am doing it wrong. However it works just fine once the block is "compiled". But I think that has nothing to do with IJulia. I have indeed met Gadfly. I had Gadfly in mind when I wrote that. It is indeed very pretty. It is only for 2-D plotting, does not do contour or density plot ( two types I tend to use the most). I am sure it will only get improved. On Monday, 21 July 2014 14:48:17 UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Zahirul ALAM <zahiru...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> One feature I would like to see from IJulia may be is that the input of >> greek and mathematical symbol in way that looks natural, e.g. using >> subscript, in division, integration etc as way to input. This will >> definitely be a significant improvement IMHO. >> > > You can do Unicode input using LaTeX codes in IJulia by typing, e.g. > \alpha<tab>, which will be turned into a Unicode α. That's not as fancy as > what you can do in Mathematica, but I'm not sure we want to go there. I > find editing Mathematica code pretty irritating and it's not that much > better looking except for the "traditional" output mode, which you cannot > use as an input format anyway. > > second feature is to be able to plot a function in a way one can do in >> Mathematica. Plotting packages for Julia does this in very limited way >> (unless I am missing something) >> > > Have you met Gadfly <https://github.com/dcjones/Gadfly.jl>? >
