(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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