If you happen to use ibus on a linux, there's a emoji/unicode picker <https://mike-fabian.github.io/ibus-typing-booster/documentation.html#emoji-predictions>, where you can type `<ctrl+shift+e>elem<space>` and pick one from the candidates “∈∉∊⋲⋳⋴⋵⋶⋷⋸⋹⟒⫙” .
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 21:25, <t...@projectivespace.com> wrote: > A quick question for the ConTeXt mailing list: > > Other than typing it directly (or cutting and pasting it), how does one get > the character ∈ (in case this gets garbled in emailing, this is supposed to > be the mathematical symbol that looks more or less like an epsilon, and > which is the mathematical symbol for "is an element of" a set). > > \showmathfontcharacters gives the following information about it: > > U+02208: ∈ ∈ element of > width: 524262, height: 426798, depth: 33798, italic: 0 > mathclass: relation, mathname: in > > I'm not completely sure how to read this information, but if I read it > correctly, perhaps this character should be gotten with \in. Also, the > Basic > Math page of the Wiki (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math/basic) states > that you should be able to type this character with "\in". But that doesn't > work (even inside a formula), since \in is used for references in ConTeXt. > And in fact the link on the Basic Math page for \in takes you to the > explanation of \in as used for ConTeXt references. > > This is a very common character in mathematics, so I wanted to ask: what is > the recommended way to type this character? (I'm hoping to avoid having to > cut and paste the character into the document every time I want to use it. > And I don't have a utf enabled keyboard that would allow me to type this > symbol readily from the keyboard.) > > Thanks in advance, > > > Sciurus > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >
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