(In TeXShop, add the line " % !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode" (no quotes) the top to be able to save in Unicode if it isn't your default.) Then you can write macros (or use packages written by others, in the LaTeX case) to define those characters, Greek & math (e.g., \def α), after making its \catcode active (in that example, \catcode`α=13). You can use Unicode characters in TeX source files with (standard on the Mac, but only with certain software on other platforms). To get the same characters in extended (8-bit) ASCII,īut nobody else can read that unless they have the font, and can read Mac OS Roman encoding See also this list of links for other tools for all operating systems. Standard Mac keyboard layouts for MS Windows can be found here.įor Linux, there is Keyboard Layout Editor. klc file I created from my Mac keyboard layout by this Python script,Īnd the resulting setup.exe (from Dharmesh Jain everything works except ⌥␠ ). (I also made a v2 that changed only the ⟨ & ⟩ characters.)įor MS Windows there is Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. It installs in /Library/Keyboard Layouts, or ~/Library/.
Option key (e.g., Option-a for α), displayed in the standard Unicode fonts. Layout" for macOS that allows you to type all the Greek and more-useful math characters directly from the keyboard using the \a might get converted into α.) For other systems there exist programs to do the same. Then you can make your own abbreviation for a symbol, & it's automatically replaced. In macOS, there is Emoji & Symbols in MS Windows, Character Map in GNOME (on Linux), GNOME Character Map.įor macOS another alternative is to use the menu item Edit > Substitutions > Text Replacement, after making some definitions in System Preferences > Keyboard > Text. Your operating system should give you a "palette" of such letters: Reading such characters is easier than getting them in there in the first place.
Some sub/superscripts also exist separately in Unicode, e.g., You may have to use an appropriate font, that has all the characters,Į.g., Lucida Grande (Mac)/Lucida Sans Unicode (MS Windows) seems to have almost everything.īetween using the right characters, and subscripts & superscripts, you have almost everything you need for basic math. Large delimiters (missing on some computers & mobile devices): ⎛ ⎝ ⎞ ⎠ (etc.)Īctually, Unicode is mostly about languages, but you get the math Than your standard 2⁸-character (extended) ASCII fonts. Unicode fonts have 17×2¹⁶ characters, and so have a lot more It mostly involves just using more characters in the usual fonts.
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