Accessing geeky unicode math symbols on my Windows keyboard

Step 1) stop using eclipse, get intellij
Step 2) install the live templates included in the scalaz distribution
Step 3) try typing "x map [tab]" and see what happens.

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Brian Maso wrote:
> Bedazzled by Scalaz's self-obfuscating, APL-inspired blizzard of
> mathematical symbols, I'm ready to try typing the 1-character function names
> instead of multi-character ascii-only. Does anyone know how I access those
> symbols on a normal Windows machine in Eclipse? Trying to type, for example,
> the "forall" symbol (unicode 8704 == x2200) using ALT+8704 doesn't work, nor
> does ALT+2200. Google isn't very helpful, surprisingly. (You'd think there
> would be a dozen blog entries on how to do this.)
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Brian Maso
> (949) 395-8551
> brian@blumenfeld-maso.com
>
>

Bedazzled by Scalaz's self-obfuscating, APL-inspired blizzard of mathematical symbols, I'm ready to try typing the 1-character function names instead of multi-character ascii-only. Does anyone know how I access those symbols on a normal Windows machine in Eclipse? Trying to type, for example, the "forall" symbol (unicode 8704 == x2200) using ALT+8704 doesn't work, nor does ALT+2200. Google isn't very helpful, surprisingly. (You'd think there would be a dozen blog entries on how to do this.)

--
Best regards,
Brian Maso
(949) 395-8551
brian@blumenfeld-maso.com

For more details:
http://superuser.com/questions/136867/a-rapid-way-to-type-funny-characte...

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Alec Zorab wrote:
> Step 1) stop using eclipse, get intellij
> Step 2) install the live templates included in the scalaz distribution
> Step 3) try typing "x map [tab]" and see what happens.
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Brian Maso wrote:
>> Bedazzled by Scalaz's self-obfuscating, APL-inspired blizzard of
>> mathematical symbols, I'm ready to try typing the 1-character function names
>> instead of multi-character ascii-only. Does anyone know how I access those
>> symbols on a normal Windows machine in Eclipse? Trying to type, for example,
>> the "forall" symbol (unicode 8704 == x2200) using ALT+8704 doesn't work, nor
>> does ALT+2200. Google isn't very helpful, surprisingly. (You'd think there
>> would be a dozen blog entries on how to do this.)
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Brian Maso
>> (949) 395-8551
>> brian@blumenfeld-maso.com
>>
>>
>

As far as I remember you can do the same with Eclipse code snippets.

Regards,
Ruediger

Am 2010 12 13 20:05 schrieb "Alec Zorab" <aleczorab@googlemail.com>:
> Step 1) stop using eclipse, get intellij
> Step 2) install the live templates included in the scalaz distribution
> Step 3) try typing "x map [tab]" and see what happens.
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Brian Maso <brian@blumenfeld-maso.com> wrote:
>> Bedazzled by Scalaz's self-obfuscating, APL-inspired blizzard of
>> mathematical symbols, I'm ready to try typing the 1-character function names
>> instead of multi-character ascii-only. Does anyone know how I access those
>> symbols on a normal Windows machine in Eclipse? Trying to type, for example,
>> the "forall" symbol (unicode 8704 == x2200) using ALT+8704 doesn't work, nor
>> does ALT+2200. Google isn't very helpful, surprisingly. (You'd think there
>> would be a dozen blog entries on how to do this.)
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Brian Maso
>> (949) 395-8551
>> brian@blumenfeld-maso.com
>>
>>

On 13/12/2010 19:46, Brian Maso wrote:
> Bedazzled by Scalaz's self-obfuscating, APL-inspired blizzard of mathematical symbols, I'm
> ready to try typing the 1-character function names instead of multi-character ascii-only.
> Does anyone know how I access those symbols on a normal Windows machine in Eclipse? Trying
> to type, for example, the "forall" symbol (unicode 8704 == x2200) using ALT+8704 doesn't
> work, nor does ALT+2200. Google isn't very helpful, surprisingly. (You'd think there would
> be a dozen blog entries on how to do this.)

Copy & paste? A multi-clipboard utility can help here. Or some hotkey utility like
AutoHotkey...

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code