Please note I updated my last post to clarify the usage as follows. On Monday, 26 October 2020 08:27:49 UTC+1, TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > Tones > > There are numerous Windows utilities for this, as well as Windows own > keyboard mapping utils (somewhat cumbersome to set up). > > In my own case I daily use PopChar (full blown utility that also shows the > font supported variants) & FrKeys (old XP utility that stiil works and is > nicely minimal, very easy to configure.) > > ADDED ... I should have added that I run these using "click-on-character" > rather than keyboard assignments. Since FrKeys I always foreground its > never "a number of strokes needed" issue and its fully portable between > Windows systems. > > In TW, for standard use, I tend to use the editor's stamp tool too since > it can be configured to "pair" opening and closing strings. > > Best wishes > TT > > On Monday, 26 October 2020 02:56:26 UTC+1, 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 >> >
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