[Scilab-users] New constant %chars to get sets of symbols

[P M]

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 <sgougeon at free.fr
>:

> 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.
>
>
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