Re: [Scilab-users] New constant %chars to get sets of symbols
Hello Philipp, Le 31/12/2020 à 17:28, P M a écrit : 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" Because then this would reintroduce some codes (and even worse, paths to codes), and break the overall visibility over sets, which is definitely against the main purposes of the proposal. Cheers Samuel ___ users mailing list users@lists.scilab.org http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Scilab-users] New constant %chars to get sets of symbols
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 : > 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
Re: [Scilab-users] New constant %chars to get sets of symbols
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
Re: [Scilab-users] New constant %chars to get sets of symbols
On 31/12/2020 15:43, Samuel Gougeon wrote: Le 31/12/2020 à 15:27, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit : .../... I am not sure that implementing the Julia solution with LaTeX would improve a lot the situation: * first, we still have to remember a code, the latex one ; this is simple for common characters, but get harder and harder for less frequent ones. While a selection among displayed/rendered characters do not need to remember any code. I have written 700 pages in LaTeX without wysiwym software like LyX, and hopefully i had always a hand on "A Guide to LaTeX-2e" and its tables of illustrated codes to get the right one. * Moreover, we can put in %chars some characters that have no LaTeX code. * Finally, implementing a LaTeX shortcut could not be used when editing the documentation out of the console and Scinotes, except to render the character in order to then, anyway, copy/paste it wherever needed. So, to me, the main purposes are * to stop having to remember any code for the -- say 500 or 1000 -- most used characters, when no complex expression is required. Well, I don't see how this should work then. How do I select λ in your proposed solution? Should I have to visually scan a 500-symbol long list? I think I missed something in your proposal. 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... 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'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 ?) Then we select λ, and copy/paste it where needed. * to stop having to search in an external document when working with Scilab * and possibly, to present classes of characters, what can help finding the required one. Beyong this current topic and the trivial implementation of %chars, it could then even be useful to have an easy way to get the LaTeX code from a selected character, instead of the opposite! Well, here is my assumption (that might be wrong): most of the people trying to use λ or ∆ might be aware that they are called lambda and Delta and from there, the LaTeX naming convention is usually quite sensible: \lambda, \Delta. Yes, these are the frequent easy characters to remember. I think there is quite a difference between remembering Ctrl+Maj+Alt+u+03BB and remembering \lambda+Tab to get λ! For me, the second solution is way more user friendly... :-) For sure, but, still, i won't remember \Diamond (why with a capital?), \diamondsuit (all in lowercases), \vdash, etc etc codes without _/first/ sawing_ them rendered. ___ 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
Re: [Scilab-users] New constant %chars to get sets of symbols
Please read Le 31/12/2020 à 15:43, Samuel Gougeon a écrit : For sure, but, still, i won't remember \Diamond (why with a capital?), \diamondsuit (all in lowercases), \vdash, etc etc codes without _/first/ s*ee*ing_ them rendered. ;-) ___ users mailing list users@lists.scilab.org http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Scilab-users] New constant %chars to get sets of symbols
> Le 31 déc. 2020 à 15:28, Antoine Monmayrant a > écrit : > > > > > On 31/12/2020 13:44, Samuel Gougeon wrote: >>> Le 31/12/2020 à 10:36, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit : On 29/12/2020 16:39, Samuel Gougeon wrote: > As well, i must confess that having a ALT+X or any other keys shortcut > able to convert a series of 2 to 4 input unicodes to the corresponding > character -- as proposed in wish #16505 -- would be of almost no help to > me, because i do not remember unicodes of any non-ascii characters. Who > does? Such a ALT-X shortcut is used for instance in the -- yet great -- > Inskscape free drawing software. Then, each time that a greek letter or > another symbol must be used, we need to find its unicodes in an extra > document (most often on internet). It's definitely not handy. I agree with you here. It is not a good idea to use such a shortcut that replicates what is already present at the OS level: on linux for example Crtl+Alt+Maj+u allows to type the unicode of a character (like 3BB for λ). Equivalent shortcuts exist under Windows and MacOS. From my personal experience, my preferred implementation is the one used by Julia: type the LaTeX macro (like \lambda for λ) then Tab and you get the unicode character. I assume implementation something like that in Scilab is quite a lot of work... Your proposition might be a good compromise between ease of implementation and usefulness. >>> >>> Thank you for your input and for supporting the proposal, Antoine. >>> >>> About any shortcut proposal, may i add that, yes it would be a more general >>> solution than the selected characters in %chars. But while getting an >>> external document referencing unicodes of some requested symbols, i don't >>> see any reason to get the unicodes and use the shortcut, instead of >>> directly copying the character from this external document and copying it >>> wherever it is needed in Scilab or elsewhere, as in a documentation page >>> edited with Notepadd++ for instance. >>> Therefore, the right external document to select is not a document listing >>> unicodes, but more simply a document listing characters sets rendered >>> without gif or other images. Before implementing this %chars, it was what i >>> used to do. >>> >>> I am not sure that implementing the Julia solution with LaTeX would improve >>> a lot the situation: >>> >>> first, we still have to remember a code, the latex one ; this is simple for >>> common characters, but get harder and harder for less frequent ones. While >>> a selection among displayed/rendered characters do not need to remember any >>> code. I have written 700 pages in LaTeX without wysiwym software like LyX, >>> and hopefully i had always a hand on "A Guide to LaTeX-2e" and its tables >>> of illustrated codes to get the right one. >>> Moreover, we can put in %chars some characters that have no LaTeX code. >>> Finally, implementing a LaTeX shortcut could not be used when editing the >>> documentation out of the console and Scinotes, except to render the >>> character in order to then, anyway, copy/paste it wherever needed. >>> So, to me, the main purposes are >>> >>> to stop having to remember any code for the -- say 500 or 1000 -- most used >>> characters, when no complex expression is required. >> Well, I don't see how this should work then. >> How do I select λ in your proposed solution? Should I have to visually scan >> a 500-symbol long list? >> I think I missed something in your proposal. >> >> to stop having to search in an external document when working with Scilab >> and possibly, to present classes of characters, what can help finding the >> required one. >> Beyong this current topic and the trivial implementation of %chars, it could >> then even be useful to have an easy way to get the LaTeX code from a >> selected character, instead of the opposite! >> > Well, here is my assumption (that might be wrong): most of the people trying > to use λ or ∆ might be aware that they are called lambda and Delta and from > there, the LaTeX naming convention is usually quite sensible: \lambda, \Delta. > > I think there is quite a difference between remembering Ctrl+Maj+Alt+u+03BB > and remembering \lambda+Tab to get λ! > For me, the second solution is way more user friendly... :-) > +1 S. > > > Antoine > >> Regards >> Samuel >> >> >> >> >> ___ >> users mailing list >> users@lists.scilab.org >> http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users > ___ > users mailing list > users@lists.scilab.org > https://antispam.utc.fr/proxy/1/c3RlcGhhbmUubW90dGVsZXRAdXRjLmZy/lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@lists.scilab.org http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Scilab-users] New constant %chars to get sets of symbols
Le 31/12/2020 à 15:27, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit : .../... I am not sure that implementing the Julia solution with LaTeX would improve a lot the situation: * first, we still have to remember a code, the latex one ; this is simple for common characters, but get harder and harder for less frequent ones. While a selection among displayed/rendered characters do not need to remember any code. I have written 700 pages in LaTeX without wysiwym software like LyX, and hopefully i had always a hand on "A Guide to LaTeX-2e" and its tables of illustrated codes to get the right one. * Moreover, we can put in %chars some characters that have no LaTeX code. * Finally, implementing a LaTeX shortcut could not be used when editing the documentation out of the console and Scinotes, except to render the character in order to then, anyway, copy/paste it wherever needed. So, to me, the main purposes are * to stop having to remember any code for the -- say 500 or 1000 -- most used characters, when no complex expression is required. Well, I don't see how this should work then. How do I select λ in your proposed solution? Should I have to visually scan a 500-symbol long list? I think I missed something in your proposal. 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℧" Then we select λ, and copy/paste it where needed. * to stop having to search in an external document when working with Scilab * and possibly, to present classes of characters, what can help finding the required one. Beyong this current topic and the trivial implementation of %chars, it could then even be useful to have an easy way to get the LaTeX code from a selected character, instead of the opposite! Well, here is my assumption (that might be wrong): most of the people trying to use λ or ∆ might be aware that they are called lambda and Delta and from there, the LaTeX naming convention is usually quite sensible: \lambda, \Delta. Yes, these are the frequent easy characters to remember. I think there is quite a difference between remembering Ctrl+Maj+Alt+u+03BB and remembering \lambda+Tab to get λ! For me, the second solution is way more user friendly... :-) For sure, but, still, i won't remember \Diamond (why with a capital?), \diamondsuit (all in lowercases), \vdash, etc etc codes without _/first/ sawing_ them rendered. ___ users mailing list users@lists.scilab.org http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Scilab-users] New constant %chars to get sets of symbols
On 31/12/2020 13:44, Samuel Gougeon wrote: Le 31/12/2020 à 10:36, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit : On 29/12/2020 16:39, Samuel Gougeon wrote: As well, i must confess that having a ALT+X or any other keys shortcut able to convert a series of 2 to 4 input unicodes to the corresponding character -- as proposed in wish #16505 -- would be of almost no help to me, because i do not remember unicodes of any non-ascii characters. Who does? Such a ALT-X shortcut is used for instance in the -- yet great -- /Inskscape/ free drawing software. Then, each time that a greek letter or another symbol must be used, we need to find its unicodes in an extra document (most often on internet). It's definitely not handy. I agree with you here. It is not a good idea to use such a shortcut that replicates what is already present at the OS level: on linux for example Crtl+Alt+Maj+u allows to type the unicode of a character (like 3BB for λ). Equivalent shortcuts exist under Windows and MacOS. From my personal experience, my preferred implementation is the one used by Julia: type the LaTeX macro (like \lambda for λ) then Tab and you get the unicode character. I assume implementation something like that in Scilab is quite a lot of work... Your proposition might be a good compromise between ease of implementation and usefulness. Thank you for your input and for supporting the proposal, Antoine. About any shortcut proposal, may i add that, yes it would be a more general solution than the selected characters in %chars. But while getting an external document referencing unicodes of some requested symbols, i don't see any reason to get the unicodes and use the shortcut, instead of directly copying the character from this external document and copying it wherever it is needed in Scilab or elsewhere, as in a documentation page edited with Notepadd++ for instance. Therefore, the right external document to select is not a document listing unicodes, but more simply a document listing characters sets rendered without gif or other images. Before implementing this %chars, it was what i used to do. I am not sure that implementing the Julia solution with LaTeX would improve a lot the situation: * first, we still have to remember a code, the latex one ; this is simple for common characters, but get harder and harder for less frequent ones. While a selection among displayed/rendered characters do not need to remember any code. I have written 700 pages in LaTeX without wysiwym software like LyX, and hopefully i had always a hand on "A Guide to LaTeX-2e" and its tables of illustrated codes to get the right one. * Moreover, we can put in %chars some characters that have no LaTeX code. * Finally, implementing a LaTeX shortcut could not be used when editing the documentation out of the console and Scinotes, except to render the character in order to then, anyway, copy/paste it wherever needed. So, to me, the main purposes are * to stop having to remember any code for the -- say 500 or 1000 -- most used characters, when no complex expression is required. Well, I don't see how this should work then. How do I select λ in your proposed solution? Should I have to visually scan a 500-symbol long list? I think I missed something in your proposal. * * to stop having to search in an external document when working with Scilab * and possibly, to present classes of characters, what can help finding the required one. Beyong this current topic and the trivial implementation of %chars, it could then even be useful to have an easy way to get the LaTeX code from a selected character, instead of the opposite! Well, here is my assumption (that might be wrong): most of the people trying to use λ or ∆ might be aware that they are called lambda and Delta and from there, the LaTeX naming convention is usually quite sensible: \lambda, \Delta. I think there is quite a difference between remembering Ctrl+Maj+Alt+u+03BB and remembering \lambda+Tab to get λ! For me, the second solution is way more user friendly... :-) Antoine Regards Samuel ___ 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
Re: [Scilab-users] New constant %chars to get sets of symbols
Le 31/12/2020 à 10:36, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit : On 29/12/2020 16:39, Samuel Gougeon wrote: As well, i must confess that having a ALT+X or any other keys shortcut able to convert a series of 2 to 4 input unicodes to the corresponding character -- as proposed in wish #16505 -- would be of almost no help to me, because i do not remember unicodes of any non-ascii characters. Who does? Such a ALT-X shortcut is used for instance in the -- yet great -- /Inskscape/ free drawing software. Then, each time that a greek letter or another symbol must be used, we need to find its unicodes in an extra document (most often on internet). It's definitely not handy. I agree with you here. It is not a good idea to use such a shortcut that replicates what is already present at the OS level: on linux for example Crtl+Alt+Maj+u allows to type the unicode of a character (like 3BB for λ). Equivalent shortcuts exist under Windows and MacOS. From my personal experience, my preferred implementation is the one used by Julia: type the LaTeX macro (like \lambda for λ) then Tab and you get the unicode character. I assume implementation something like that in Scilab is quite a lot of work... Your proposition might be a good compromise between ease of implementation and usefulness. Thank you for your input and for supporting the proposal, Antoine. About any shortcut proposal, may i add that, yes it would be a more general solution than the selected characters in %chars. But while getting an external document referencing unicodes of some requested symbols, i don't see any reason to get the unicodes and use the shortcut, instead of directly copying the character from this external document and copying it wherever it is needed in Scilab or elsewhere, as in a documentation page edited with Notepadd++ for instance. Therefore, the right external document to select is not a document listing unicodes, but more simply a document listing characters sets rendered without gif or other images. Before implementing this %chars, it was what i used to do. I am not sure that implementing the Julia solution with LaTeX would improve a lot the situation: * first, we still have to remember a code, the latex one ; this is simple for common characters, but get harder and harder for less frequent ones. While a selection among displayed/rendered characters do not need to remember any code. I have written 700 pages in LaTeX without wysiwym software like LyX, and hopefully i had always a hand on "A Guide to LaTeX-2e" and its tables of illustrated codes to get the right one. * Moreover, we can put in %chars some characters that have no LaTeX code. * Finally, implementing a LaTeX shortcut could not be used when editing the documentation out of the console and Scinotes, except to render the character in order to then, anyway, copy/paste it wherever needed. So, to me, the main purposes are * to stop having to remember any code for the -- say 500 or 1000 -- most used characters, when no complex expression is required. * to stop having to search in an external document when working with Scilab * and possibly, to present classes of characters, what can help finding the required one. Beyong this current topic and the trivial implementation of %chars, it could then even be useful to have an easy way to get the LaTeX code from a selected character, instead of the opposite! Regards Samuel ___ users mailing list users@lists.scilab.org http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Scilab-users] New constant %chars to get sets of symbols
On 29/12/2020 16:39, Samuel Gougeon wrote: As well, i must confess that having a ALT+X or any other keys shortcut able to convert a series of 2 to 4 input unicodes to the corresponding character -- as proposed in wish #16505 -- would be of almost no help to me, because i do not remember unicodes of any non-ascii characters. Who does? Such a ALT-X shortcut is used for instance in the -- yet great -- /Inskscape/ free drawing software. Then, each time that a greek letter or another symbol must be used, we need to find its unicodes in an extra document (most often on internet). It's definitely not handy. I agree with you here. It is not a good idea to use such a shortcut that replicates what is already present at the OS level: on linux for example Crtl+Alt+Maj+u allows to type the unicode of a character (like 3BB for λ). Equivalent shortcuts exist under Windows and MacOS. From my personal experience, my preferred implementation is the one used by Julia: type the LaTeX macro (like \lambda for λ) then Tab and you get the unicode character. I assume implementation something like that in Scilab is quite a lot of work... Your proposition might be a good compromise between ease of implementation and usefulness. Cheers, Antoine ___ users mailing list users@lists.scilab.org http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users
