I want to use Unicode math symbols as operators ;)  Dot and cross product etc.  Union, Intersection.  Almost Equal To.  Similar To.  So many things that are standard math symbols and are hard to type out with words.

Sean

"Carlos" <carlos8294@msn.com> wrote in message news:ak21oi$30gn$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> >
> > I was wrong. The trouble with :+: being for overloaded operators and +
for
> > builtin operators is that generic templates don't work. It has to be the same operator token.
> >
>
> Ok, but I mainly meant about the other stuff... About using other symbols
as
> operators...

"Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:ak3600$231d$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I want to use Unicode math symbols as operators ;)  Dot and cross product etc.  Union, Intersection.  Almost Equal To.  Similar To.  So many things that are standard math symbols and are hard to type out with words.

I've been thinking that it might be possible to predefine some of those as tokens, and then allow operator overloading of them.

"Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:ak3600$231d$1@digitaldaemon.com...

> I want to use Unicode math symbols as operators ;)  Dot and cross product etc.  Union, Intersection.  Almost Equal To.  Similar To.  So many things that are standard math symbols and are hard to type out with words.

   What text editor would you use to program, then? Ahem...

Salutaciones,
                       JCAB

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 13:12:54 -0700 "Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza" <jcab@JCABs-Rumblings.com> wrote:

>    What text editor would you use to program, then? Ahem...

BeOS StyleEdit. Or QNX Ped. Or maybe just FAR. =)

That's a good question, and I don't have a good answer.  But I do find it hard to believe that UTF-8 and Unicode fonts have been around for this long without some fool making a truly unicode compatible text editor.  I just tried TextPad and though it claims Unicode and UTF-8 support for file formats, it won't display the characters properly.

I suppose I could always use MS Word as an editor.  ;(

Sean

"Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza" <jcab@JCABs-Rumblings.com> wrote in message news:ak3g7p$2edc$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> "Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:ak3600$231d$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>
> > I want to use Unicode math symbols as operators ;)  Dot and cross
product
> > etc.  Union, Intersection.  Almost Equal To.  Similar To.  So many
things
> > that are standard math symbols and are hard to type out with words.
>
>    What text editor would you use to program, then? Ahem...
>
> Salutaciones,
>                        JCAB

"Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:ak5p89$20d4$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> That's a good question, and I don't have a good answer.  But I do find it hard to believe that UTF-8 and Unicode fonts have been around for this
long
> without some fool making a truly unicode compatible text editor.  I just tried TextPad and though it claims Unicode and UTF-8 support for file formats, it won't display the characters properly.
>
> I suppose I could always use MS Word as an editor.  ;(

The source to MicroEmacs comes with the compiler. If the operating system can display unicode characters, then it would be fairly trivial to change ME to edit unicode.

"Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:ak5qb4$21dc$3@digitaldaemon.com...

> The source to MicroEmacs comes with the compiler. If the operating system can display unicode characters, then it would be fairly trivial to change
ME
> to edit unicode.

   Display is one end of it. Input is another. How would you type the new
characters in the editor? I've always seen UNICODE as a post-process stuff
that kind of happens behind the scenes but you hardly ever see while you
program. I would really _love_ to see a real, usable UNICODE editor in
action.

Salutaciones,
                       JCAB

"Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza" <jcab@JCABs-Rumblings.com> wrote in message news:ak6ftm$2p80$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> "Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:ak5qb4$21dc$3@digitaldaemon.com...
>
> > The source to MicroEmacs comes with the compiler. If the operating
system
> > can display unicode characters, then it would be fairly trivial to
change
> ME
> > to edit unicode.
>
>    Display is one end of it. Input is another. How would you type the new
> characters in the editor? I've always seen UNICODE as a post-process stuff
> that kind of happens behind the scenes but you hardly ever see while you
> program. I would really _love_ to see a real, usable UNICODE editor in
> action.

Input it as: <METAKEY> UUUU

Ugly, but workable for occaisonal use.

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:25:58 -0700 "Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza" <jcab@JCABs-Rumblings.com> wrote:

>    Display is one end of it. Input is another. How would you type the new
> characters in the editor? I've always seen UNICODE as a post-process stuff

There are different keyboard mappings, and many OSes allow you to create your
own - so one could
create such a mapping, for example I could do it for BeOS, and then just
switch back and forth.
Then the only problem would be to remember which key corresponds to which
operator.

Just cut'n'paste from the Character Map tool.

Sean

"Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:ak6ktk$2uip$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>
> "Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza" <jcab@JCABs-Rumblings.com> wrote in message news:ak6ftm$2p80$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > "Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:ak5qb4$21dc$3@digitaldaemon.com...
> >
> > > The source to MicroEmacs comes with the compiler. If the operating
> system
> > > can display unicode characters, then it would be fairly trivial to
> change
> > ME
> > > to edit unicode.
> >
> >    Display is one end of it. Input is another. How would you type the
new
> > characters in the editor? I've always seen UNICODE as a post-process
stuff
> > that kind of happens behind the scenes but you hardly ever see while you program. I would really _love_ to see a real, usable UNICODE editor in action.
>
> Input it as: <METAKEY> UUUU
>
> Ugly, but workable for occaisonal use.