On 4 Jun 2014, at 15:00, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> 2014-06-04 15:32, Hans Aberg wrote under Subject: Re: Swift: > >> On 4 Jun 2014, at 13:58, Leonardo Boiko <leobo...@namakajiri.net> >> wrote: >> >>> I don't think this feature saw much use, since programmers in a >>> global world can't assume that everyone will have easy access to >>> their input methods, and so tend to restrict code tokens to the >>> ASCII set to encourage participation. >> >> Indeed, the lack of good input methods limits the usability of the >> math characters, which other may be very useful in programming >> languages. One way is to add shortcut translations, like typing >> “real” translates into ℝ (U+211D), but they must be added by hand. > > If you are interested in math input methods, take a look at my design of math > keyboard layout for use on normal US keyboard: > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/math/kbd.html Unfortunately I use a different platform. > Input issues can be handled at many levels, including program-specific > translations, but doing them at keyboard level has obvious advantages (and > some problems). > > As an aside, the ISO 80000-2 standard on mathematical notations describes > boldface letters such as boldface R as symbols for commonly known sets of > numbers. The double-struck letters like ℝ as mentioned as an alternative way, > whereas in the previous standard, these notations were presented the other > way around. The change is logical in the sense that bold face is a more > original notation and double-struck letters as characters imitate the > imitation of boldface letters when writing by hand (with a pen or piece of > chalk). The STIX fonts [1] have a lot the “traditional” math characters, including the math styles. A discussion here revealed that mathematicians nowadays use a lot more. So a problem is that math uses a lot of characters. 1. http://www.stixfonts.org _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
