G'day Tones, I've never used this, but I'm thinking it is the way to go: Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator.
Check out this video and see if that would work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcxltyn0nbE Then you'd just be switching between keyboards when you need the unicode characters? On Sunday, October 25, 2020 at 11:50:48 PM UTC-3, TW Tones wrote: > > By the way, > > I just thought I would mention some of our gurus may know how to build the > ability to type in the alternate alpha-numeric characters into tiddlywiki, > an example may be a custom language that maps to these alternates. > > What if this could go into the *pre-release *or a plugin for it were > available? > > additional alphanumeric characters here > https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D400.pdf > > Regards > Tones > > On Monday, 26 October 2020 12:56:26 UTC+11, TW Tones wrote: >> >> Folks, >> >> I have discovered that the Unicode standard has additional alphanumeric >> characters here https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D400.pdf >> >> The are commonly used to represent variable and other mathematical or >> algebraic symbols. More often than not these will be used within a formula. >> Some of out tiddlywiki users are mathematicians and will be familiar with >> this. >> >> If however you are not a mathematician they remain available to be used >> in a novel way. For example a tiddler named ｌｉｓｔ uses a different full >> width character set and their are at least 6 other full alpha numeric sets. >> >> In tiddlywiki it actually supports these character sets as tiddler titles >> and the search will not find them unless you are searching using characters >> from the alternate set. These characters display differently like ｌｉｓｔ >> or 𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓽 or 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭. >> >> Now I see quite a lot of uses for this but there is one thing I can't >> find, I want to quickly remap my keyboard to use one of the alternate sets >> only for alphanumeric keys, upper and lower case, and switch back with >> ease, All my searches point to changing languages, or entering Unicode from >> a multi-key strokes and not what I need. >> >> Any ideas or pointers would be great. >> >> - I am using windows 10 >> - There must be software already for this is my guess >> - It would be ideal if a onscreen keyboard is needed, that while open >> you can use the matching key to type text off the physical keyboard. >> >> Why? >> >> - This effectively creates an additional namespace for each >> character set, remember these look like different fonts but they are also >> different characters. >> - An example may be for different tiddlers named list, ｌｉｓｔ, 𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓽 >> or 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭. >> - One could be a standard tiddler "list", a tiddler to transclude >> for ｌｉｓｔs, a tiddler defining a variable called 𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓽 etc... >> - I have tested tiddler titles and macro definitions and they work >> and are different from those with the standard character set. >> - There are other opportunities exposed by this if I can find an easy >> way to use them, this post would be too long winded I tried to share >> these >> now. >> >> Thanks in advance if you have any experience with this and can share. >> >> Tones >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/59e1d1d3-66e3-495a-af4e-c5fefef749fdo%40googlegroups.com.
