Re: Re: Re: Suggestions on how to use standard engineering symbols
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- Subject: [mg104176] Re: [mg104167] Re: Re: Suggestions on how to use standard engineering symbols
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:17:26 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: jfultz at wolfram.com
Esc goa Esc for \[GothicA] Esc dsa Esc for \[DoubleStruckA] Esc sca Esc for \[ScriptA] Etc. This is actually documented. Just look up \[GothicA], etc. in the help viewer. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc. On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:32:50 -0400 (EDT), Alexei Boulbitch wrote: > Hi, Nasser, > > the Greek letters you may insert by Esc+letter_of_your_choice+Esc. Try > Esc+E+Esc and look also into > the posting mg104133 by Hannes Kessler appeared today, where Hannes > proposes exactly this way. > I also like it and will actually use this advise. > > By the way, dear Community members, do you know shortcuts that would > enable one to easily introduce > Gothic or double struck characters? > > Regards, Alexei > > > Thanks for everyone for their input. I received interesting ones here and > in > email, so thanks again for all. > > I settled down on using, in Mathematica 7, the Palettes->Special > Characters. > In there I see many uppercase (and lowercase) letters that look almost > exactly like the standard letters, but do not conflict with ones used by > Mathematics such as E and I etc... For example I use now CapitalIota for > "I" and CapitalEpsilon for "E" etc.. > > The main advantage of this is that the input and output look the same,= and > easier to debug code this way. But I have to have the special character > palettes open all the time, or learn how to enter these using short key > sequences. > > Actually, even for one upper case letters which is not yet reserved by > Mathematica for its own use, I will start using the special characters. > For > example, engineers use "A" allot for the cross sectional area, and even > though "A" is at this time is not used by Mathemetica, I thought it would > be > better to use the special character "A" instead. Who knows, may be= someone > in the future with a last name that starts with "A" will invent a famous > constant and this will be called the "A" constant, and then Mathematica > will > start using in its future releases and this will cause a problem with my > code then. I assume that Mathematica can reserve for its own use and word > or > letter which starts with Uppercase. > > So, for all one letter variables (specially the Uppercase ones), I will > use > the special characters only from now on. > > Problem solved. > > thanks, > --Nasser