Re: Input methods at the age of Unicode

On 16 Jul 2015, at 10:29, Marcel Schneider <charupdate_at_orange.fr> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, at 20:54, Hans Aberg <haberg-1_at_telia.com> wrote:

> > > On 15 Jul 2015, at 11:06, Marcel Schneider <charupdate_at_orange.fr> wrote:
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> > > Editing keyboard layouts is a job anybody can tackle who is willing to spend some time for a useful work (as opposed to a set of leisures like gaming, chasing and the like).
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> > In mathematics, there are a couple of thousands of characters, including Latin and Greek styles, which would take some time to develop a key map for.
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> That is of course a hard piece of work. For mathematical symbols, rather than a keymap, I'd prefer a Compose tree.

One still has to figure out a good map.

Using Unicode helps the readability of the input file, though. One can use for example ConTeXt with LuaLaTeX, which comes with the TeX live installation.
Received on Thu Jul 16 2015 - 03:36:42 CDT