Dear, if the content of e.g. %chars.greek.lower is a string:
Why not even subdivide this further, such as: %chars.greek.lower.alpha = "α" %chars.greek.lower.beta = "β" ... Some work to create at first, but handy to use Best Regards, Philppp Am Do., 31. Dez. 2020 um 16:37 Uhr schrieb Samuel Gougeon <sgoug...@free.fr >: > Le 31/12/2020 à 16:11, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit : > > On 31/12/2020 15:43, Samuel Gougeon wrote: > > .../... > 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℧" > > > OK, I see better what you propose. > But you are trading remembering a code (ie \lambda for λ) for remembering > which class the symbol you are looking for belongs to... > > %chars displays all of them, on less than a screen (50 characters per line > x 20 lines make 1000 characters ;-). It is illustrated in the provided help > page. > And it is hierarchical. So remembering 2 to 10 trivial fields names is > enough (instead of 1000 codes), if you wish to display subsets. > > > Again, for some of them, it might be obvious (ie \lambda is easy, so is > %chars.greek for a Greek symbol) but for some others it's far from obvious. > Like where would you put your \Diamond or \vdash? > > I may not understand the question. Please see the documentation. Both are > already included in my current %chars illustrated in the doc. > > > I've used my share of LaTeX IDEs and all the symbols assistants failed me > in the same way: they give you easy and obvious access to symbols you > already know by heart (ie \alpha is in Greek, top first element) but are a > useless mess when looking for more obscure symbols (why is \bigstar in > Misc-Math, between \blacklozenge and \spadsuit ?) > > +1. That's the point. This is why most often i display the whole %chars. > Just %chars. Without any codes. > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@lists.scilab.org > http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users >
_______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.scilab.org http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users