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   mostlypat (mostlypat@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 03:55:07 JST mostlypat

   I've always had a sort of low-level hatred and appreciation for LaTeX. I've been thinking recently it would be cool to just write maths in plain-text, I've even made some diagrams and whatnot with ASCII.

   Turns out Plan9 has some hotkeys for unicode stuff, including some maths symbols!

   cat /lib/keyboard

   (Notes from "All of Statistics")

   #plan9 #9front #maths #tex

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     screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 03:55:07 JST screwlisp

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     @mostlypat Isn't the idiom to use utf8 unicode? I thought it was this whole big thing.

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     mostlypat (mostlypat@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:37:50 JST mostlypat

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     • screwlisp

     @screwtape Do you mean how LaTeX tends to use unicode symbols? I find that 99% of LaTeX is actually positioning and resizing symbols (something that is tricky with just plaintext)

     Interestingly, the AucTeX mode in Emacs has a cool feature where it displays things like subscripts, superscripts, prettify-symbols, as you go

     (I might have misunderstood your question!)

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     screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:37:50 JST screwlisp

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     @mostlypat
     My goto for looking up utf8 hex (honestly, I don't know a better reference) is like, lib/unicode in plan9port. I thought plan9 and utf8 were kinda joined by their shared lab history. So I mean, boldly just typing your equations in unicode rather than writing in LaTeX $\int_{x=0}^{x=\pi}\sin{x}$ w/e. My idea was speculative