Le 31/12/2020 à 15:27, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit :
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I am not sure that implementing the Julia solution with LaTeX would
improve a lot the situation:
* first, we still have to remember a code, the latex one ; this is
simple for common characters, but get harder and harder for less
frequent ones. While a selection among displayed/rendered
characters do not need to remember any code. I have written 700
pages in LaTeX without wysiwym software like LyX, and hopefully i
had always a hand on "A Guide to LaTeX-2e" and its tables of
illustrated codes to get the right one.
* Moreover, we can put in %chars some characters that have no LaTeX
code.
* Finally, implementing a LaTeX shortcut could not be used when
editing the documentation out of the console and Scinotes, except
to render the character in order to then, anyway, copy/paste it
wherever needed.
So, to me, the main purposes are
* to stop having to remember any code for the -- say 500 or 1000 --
most used characters, when no complex expression is required.
Well, I don't see how this should work then.
How do I select λ in your proposed solution? Should I have to visually
scan a 500-symbol long list?
I think I missed something in your proposal.
We enter and display
--> %chars // (OK not here. See the proposed documentation for the
full display)
or for a chosen class
--> %chars.greek
ans =
lower = "αβδεϵζηθικλμνξοπρστυφϕχψωάϐέήϑίϊϰόϱςύϋΰϖώ"
upper = "ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘϴΙΪΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΫΦΧΨΩ KΩ℧"
Then we select λ, and copy/paste it where needed.
* to stop having to search in an external document when working
with Scilab
* and possibly, to present classes of characters, what can help
finding the required one.
Beyong this current topic and the trivial implementation of %chars,
it could then even be useful to have an easy way to get the LaTeX
code from a selected character, instead of the opposite!
Well, here is my assumption (that might be wrong): most of the people
trying to use λ or ∆ might be aware that they are called lambda and
Delta and from there, the LaTeX naming convention is usually quite
sensible: \lambda, \Delta.
Yes, these are the frequent easy characters to remember.
I think there is quite a difference between remembering
Ctrl+Maj+Alt+u+03BB and remembering \lambda+Tab to get λ!
For me, the second solution is way more user friendly... :-)
For sure, but, still, i won't remember \Diamond (why with a capital?),
\diamondsuit (all in lowercases), \vdash, etc etc codes without _/first/
sawing_ them rendered.
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