The excellent TeXmacs [1] has the most fluent math/symbolic writing
experience I have experienced so far, mostly because of its use of
environments (normal text, equations, math, sections/subsections,
tabular material and so on). On a particular environment you press a
shortcut and you start to cycle in variants of a particular
letter/symbol as explained in the TeXmacs Manual[2] under the section
"Typing mathematical symbols". For example, if the author is in a math
environment and types [AltGr]+@@ (s)he obtains ∞, and so on. In general
using shortcuts like that eases the writing of symbols a lot.
I would advice installing TeXmacs and writing symbols in it to get this
tactile and fluent feeling, and to see what this can inspire in the
shortcuts/abbreviations front. For example, maybe "3/4;;=¾" and ".:;;=∴"
are more fluent and less Anglo-centric to write some symbols.
[1] https://texmacs.org/
[2] https://texmacs.org/tmweb/documents/manuals/texmacs-manual.en.pdf
Hope it helps,
Offray
On 9/01/23 17:48, Rob wrote:
Perhaps also useful:
degree;;=°
half;;=½
quarter;;=¼
3fourths;;=¾
divide;;=÷
bullet;;=•
infinity;;=∞
# Ellipsis
...;;=…
ergo;;=∴
because;;=∵
# Currency
cent;;=¢
euro;;=€
pound;;=£
yen;;=¥
On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 5:34:32 PM UTC-5 Edward K. Ream wrote:
On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 1:32 PM Rob <[email protected]> wrote:
The abbreviation definitions must be copied into a
settings node, best placed in /myLeoSettings.leo/, and the
node's headline must start with /@data
global-abbreviations/ to make them available in all
outlines. My node has the headline
/@data global-abbreviations - Symbols. / Here is the
content of the node's body, ready to be copy-pasted:
alph;;=α
beta;;=β
delt;;=δ
gam;;=γ
mu;;=μ
pi;;=π
sig;;=σ
Delt;;=Δ
Sig;;=Σ
pm;;=±
Thanks for this. I'll add them to LeoDocs.leo and LeoSettings.leo
soon.
Edward
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