Enter Unicode mathematical symbols conveniently












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I want to conveniently enter Unicode symbols such as greek letters μ, ξ, ... and mathematical symbols such as ∀, ∃, ...



Using the character map is not convenient.



I would prefer to enter something like delta and have it converted to δ by pressing TAB or any other key similar to many LaTeX editors.



The background is, that I want to use eclipse for editing Julia code. But being able to do this with the operating system is better than making eclipse do that.



Autokey-gtk seems to do what I want. But I cant get it to run. Crashes each time an event is triggered.










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Need a system wide solution, that works in various text editors, IDE's and in terminal windows. The idea is to allow more readable physical/scientific notation in source codes.

















  • If you use Atom, there is github.com/JunoLab/atom-latex-completions.

    – edwinksl
    May 31 '17 at 21:47













  • It should be possible to replace the unicode number in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose with the latex command. (One day I'm going to try.)

    – Primo Petri
    Jun 2 '17 at 15:09











  • Not sure, but I guess the events in that file are all like this one: <Multi_key> <U11BC> <U11A8>. So Composite key and exactly 2 other keys.

    – Kalle
    Jun 5 '17 at 20:28













  • If you want to set up something with xdotool, my answer here could be useful

    – wjandrea
    4 hours ago











  • @Kalle With the Compose key, you press Compose, then other keys in sequence, not at the same time.

    – wjandrea
    4 hours ago
















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I want to conveniently enter Unicode symbols such as greek letters μ, ξ, ... and mathematical symbols such as ∀, ∃, ...



Using the character map is not convenient.



I would prefer to enter something like delta and have it converted to δ by pressing TAB or any other key similar to many LaTeX editors.



The background is, that I want to use eclipse for editing Julia code. But being able to do this with the operating system is better than making eclipse do that.



Autokey-gtk seems to do what I want. But I cant get it to run. Crashes each time an event is triggered.










share|improve this question

















This question has an open bounty worth +50
reputation from Yrogirg ending in 7 days.


This question has not received enough attention.


Need a system wide solution, that works in various text editors, IDE's and in terminal windows. The idea is to allow more readable physical/scientific notation in source codes.

















  • If you use Atom, there is github.com/JunoLab/atom-latex-completions.

    – edwinksl
    May 31 '17 at 21:47













  • It should be possible to replace the unicode number in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose with the latex command. (One day I'm going to try.)

    – Primo Petri
    Jun 2 '17 at 15:09











  • Not sure, but I guess the events in that file are all like this one: <Multi_key> <U11BC> <U11A8>. So Composite key and exactly 2 other keys.

    – Kalle
    Jun 5 '17 at 20:28













  • If you want to set up something with xdotool, my answer here could be useful

    – wjandrea
    4 hours ago











  • @Kalle With the Compose key, you press Compose, then other keys in sequence, not at the same time.

    – wjandrea
    4 hours ago














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I want to conveniently enter Unicode symbols such as greek letters μ, ξ, ... and mathematical symbols such as ∀, ∃, ...



Using the character map is not convenient.



I would prefer to enter something like delta and have it converted to δ by pressing TAB or any other key similar to many LaTeX editors.



The background is, that I want to use eclipse for editing Julia code. But being able to do this with the operating system is better than making eclipse do that.



Autokey-gtk seems to do what I want. But I cant get it to run. Crashes each time an event is triggered.










share|improve this question
















I want to conveniently enter Unicode symbols such as greek letters μ, ξ, ... and mathematical symbols such as ∀, ∃, ...



Using the character map is not convenient.



I would prefer to enter something like delta and have it converted to δ by pressing TAB or any other key similar to many LaTeX editors.



The background is, that I want to use eclipse for editing Julia code. But being able to do this with the operating system is better than making eclipse do that.



Autokey-gtk seems to do what I want. But I cant get it to run. Crashes each time an event is triggered.







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This question has an open bounty worth +50
reputation from Yrogirg ending in 7 days.


This question has not received enough attention.


Need a system wide solution, that works in various text editors, IDE's and in terminal windows. The idea is to allow more readable physical/scientific notation in source codes.








This question has an open bounty worth +50
reputation from Yrogirg ending in 7 days.


This question has not received enough attention.


Need a system wide solution, that works in various text editors, IDE's and in terminal windows. The idea is to allow more readable physical/scientific notation in source codes.















  • If you use Atom, there is github.com/JunoLab/atom-latex-completions.

    – edwinksl
    May 31 '17 at 21:47













  • It should be possible to replace the unicode number in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose with the latex command. (One day I'm going to try.)

    – Primo Petri
    Jun 2 '17 at 15:09











  • Not sure, but I guess the events in that file are all like this one: <Multi_key> <U11BC> <U11A8>. So Composite key and exactly 2 other keys.

    – Kalle
    Jun 5 '17 at 20:28













  • If you want to set up something with xdotool, my answer here could be useful

    – wjandrea
    4 hours ago











  • @Kalle With the Compose key, you press Compose, then other keys in sequence, not at the same time.

    – wjandrea
    4 hours ago



















  • If you use Atom, there is github.com/JunoLab/atom-latex-completions.

    – edwinksl
    May 31 '17 at 21:47













  • It should be possible to replace the unicode number in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose with the latex command. (One day I'm going to try.)

    – Primo Petri
    Jun 2 '17 at 15:09











  • Not sure, but I guess the events in that file are all like this one: <Multi_key> <U11BC> <U11A8>. So Composite key and exactly 2 other keys.

    – Kalle
    Jun 5 '17 at 20:28













  • If you want to set up something with xdotool, my answer here could be useful

    – wjandrea
    4 hours ago











  • @Kalle With the Compose key, you press Compose, then other keys in sequence, not at the same time.

    – wjandrea
    4 hours ago

















If you use Atom, there is github.com/JunoLab/atom-latex-completions.

– edwinksl
May 31 '17 at 21:47







If you use Atom, there is github.com/JunoLab/atom-latex-completions.

– edwinksl
May 31 '17 at 21:47















It should be possible to replace the unicode number in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose with the latex command. (One day I'm going to try.)

– Primo Petri
Jun 2 '17 at 15:09





It should be possible to replace the unicode number in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose with the latex command. (One day I'm going to try.)

– Primo Petri
Jun 2 '17 at 15:09













Not sure, but I guess the events in that file are all like this one: <Multi_key> <U11BC> <U11A8>. So Composite key and exactly 2 other keys.

– Kalle
Jun 5 '17 at 20:28







Not sure, but I guess the events in that file are all like this one: <Multi_key> <U11BC> <U11A8>. So Composite key and exactly 2 other keys.

– Kalle
Jun 5 '17 at 20:28















If you want to set up something with xdotool, my answer here could be useful

– wjandrea
4 hours ago





If you want to set up something with xdotool, my answer here could be useful

– wjandrea
4 hours ago













@Kalle With the Compose key, you press Compose, then other keys in sequence, not at the same time.

– wjandrea
4 hours ago





@Kalle With the Compose key, you press Compose, then other keys in sequence, not at the same time.

– wjandrea
4 hours ago










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