Re: Characters Allowed in Symbols
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg37882] Re: Characters Allowed in Symbols
- From: Tom Burton <tburton at brahea.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 01:16:01 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Adam, On 11/14/02 10:51 PM, in article ar25go$g4c$1 at smc.vnet.net, "Adam Smith" <adam.smith at hillsdale.edu> wrote: > In my "ancient" FORTRAN computer codes I got in the habit of > representing some subscripts and spaces with the underline character > "_". The are several characters that resemble the underscore and may appear within a name, among them \[UnderBracket] and \[HorizontalLine]. These both have shortcuts but, if you are going to enter a lot of these, you might want to train the front end to accept a character sequence that is easier to type. (See InputAutoReplacements in the Options Inspector.) Would you accept a dash instead? It has a relatively quick standard shortcut (if you don't reaching for the ESC all the time!) and, on my Mac at least, a very fast key sequence: Option-hyphen (aka Alt-hyphen). Tom Burton