Re: [Vim-latex-devel] IMAP with multibyte lhs

[Kay S. <kay...@ma...>]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:11:44PM +0200, com...@fr... wrote:
> I do not have such keys in my keyboard, I have a plane qwerty keyboard.
> What I wanted is an easy access to mathematical unicode symbols from
> my keyboard, not necessarily for LaTeX, but for mail, plain text,
> whatever. For example I can type in this mail: ∀ ε ≤ 1, ∃ ζ ∈ ℂ… and
> so on. (Apparently these characters are displayed properly on
> the web site, I hope it is the same for your mail viewer.)
Have you tried snipMate? I use it to map some of my ALT Gr + xx keys
to special unicode characters.

> What I really wanted actually was that when I open a tex file all the
> LaTeX macros that it contains for mathematical symbols are converted
> to UTF8 glyphs which represent them, and when I save the file the UTF8
> characters are converted back. So that I have a more "wysiwyg" LaTeX
> editor, with much more compact and readable formulas, but still have
> plain ascii LaTeX file, which latex can compile without problem. 
I use the ucs (mathletters) package in LaTex. So LaTex can compile
UTF-8 characters. This is just a workaround for missing unicode
support. But it works for me.

Kind regards,

Kay

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