Ralf,
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM, you wrote:
>
> And somehow I'm probably coming from an old school where reading code
> in a fixed-width font feels much more pleasant than with a proportional
font.
>
> Unicode is nice, but if you enter the wrong character because you didn't
see
> the little visual difference, that's probably frustrating.
Actually in general even Unicode does not go far enough. Why should I have
to "code" everything in discrete symbols anyway? E.g. In FriCAS I can write:
ω:𝐋 :=
o Y I /
o U -
o I Y /
o U o
And this will be interpreted as a series of tenser products and
compositions. But really what I would like to enter is this:
[image: 2375189246716000159-16.0px.png]
(I mean literally this graphic image. E.g. Using LaTeXDraw or a similar
package.) In principle there is no reason why an interpreter could not
"read" this diagram in the same way that a syntax parser analyses a string
of symbols. (Or maybe parse raw pstricks LaTeX code or something line that.)
>
> So in the end, it's better to be able to always change from the symbol
> to the name of the symbol. Or at least, show a tooltip when hovering
> over an unfamiliar unicode symbol.
>
Yes, I like that but it's really more of a user interface issue.
Regards,
Bill Page.
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