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I want to conveniently enter Unicode symbols such as greek letters μ, ξ, ... and mathematical symbols such as ∀, ∃, ...

Using the character map is not convenient.

I would prefer to enter something like \delta and have it converted to δ by pressing TAB or any other key similar to many LaTeX editors.

The background is, that I want to use eclipse for editing Julia code. But being able to do this with the operating system is better than making eclipse do that.

Autokey-gtk seems to do what I want. But I cant get it to run. Crashes each time an event is triggered.

Christian
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    If you use Atom, there is https://github.com/JunoLab/atom-latex-completions. – edwinksl May 31 '17 at 21:47
  • It should be possible to replace the unicode number in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose with the latex command. (One day I'm going to try.) – Primo Petri Jun 02 '17 at 15:09
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    Not sure, but I guess the events in that file are all like this one: <Multi_key> . So Composite key and exactly 2 other keys. – Christian Jun 05 '17 at 20:28
  • If you want to set up something with xdotool, my answer here could be useful – wjandrea Feb 25 '19 at 01:28
  • @Kalle With the Compose key, you press Compose, then other keys in sequence, not at the same time. – wjandrea Feb 25 '19 at 01:29
  • You know about ctrl+shift+u+UNICODE, eg UNICODE=03B4 will give δ. IME, unfortunately, for shortcuts for unicode entry it matters what WM you're using and which apps you want to enter the data in to: might want to look at xim and maybe at ibus-setup (used to set the control sequence for entering unicode code points). Using AltGr/Compose is also handy. – pbhj Feb 27 '19 at 20:06
  • in KDE you can set a compose sequence to enter any unicode symbol – pbhj Feb 27 '19 at 20:16
  • Not sure if this will help but Texlipse is a Latex editor for Eclipse https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/science.texlipse – Katu Mar 01 '19 at 09:33

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If you use Visual Studio Code, install latex-input extension.

It works as following:

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Ping Chu Hung
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