> On 23 Mar 2017, at 21:04, Nicola <nvitacolo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 23/03/2017 18:30, Hans Åberg wrote: >> >> You might try the text substitutions service: System Preferences > >> Keyboard > Text. One chooses replacement text and what it should be >> substituted into. See the thread "Input methods" for an automated >> approach to generating large substitution sets. > > Sure, that's another possibility. A drawback of that approach, as far as > I can see, is that those substitutions are applied globally across the > system.
It can be turned on/off, say by adding System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, App Shortcuts for Text Replacement & Hide/Show Substitutions. (^<cmd>T & ^<cmd>S seems fairly safe.) Also, one might try replacements with some escape code, say using # or \. > Btw, Vim has a similar feature, called `iabbrev`: the advantage is that > replacements are editor-specific and the method is cross-platform > (because Vim is). Vim also offers support for inputting “digraphs” and > for defining your own. It does not seem to work with combining characters. > Even better, for the use case at hand, is that > you may also define your own keymap, e.g.: One can make MacOS keymaps using Ukelele, but that is very time consuming. The text substitution system is very fast, both in terms of creating it, and using. I made a system for all the over one thousand math styled alphanumeric symbols. It is tricky to make sure there are no conflicts, and the .plist format is right, which is why I wrote the C++ program. > Anyway, for me the IPA keyboard layout is what has worked best. That might work well of the set of characters is fairly small. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
