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Re:UnicodeMath – A Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics... by enriquto on Friday November 23, 2018 @08:36AM (#18516293)
> But you can't type α, ∂, or ∫ in a standard keyboard.

I have a standard keyboard and I type greek letters easily. ALTGR+a, and so on.

If somebody is not able to configure their keyboard to do this they are not probably writing LaTeX, either.

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Re:UnicodeMath – A Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics... by zimpenfish on Friday November 23, 2018 @08:42AM (#18516337)
If memory serves me correctly, there was no way to type those symbols on an Acorn A5000 which is where I did the bulk of my LaTeXing back in the day (1992-95).

(Admittedly, this anecdata is even more useless than usual.)

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Re:UnicodeMath – A Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics... by Technetium_Hat on Saturday November 24, 2018 @12:46AM (#18520673)
Unfortunately ANSI (US layout) keyboards make this much more difficult.
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Re:UnicodeMath – A Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics... by claudiawerner on Friday November 23, 2018 @08:52AM (#18516387)
In DrRacket, you can press Ctrl+\ to insert a lambda character.
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