[openi18n-im:01379] Re: Help with defining a new module

> From: Giuseppe Castagna <[email protected]>
> Thank to all for your answers, and in particular to Hideki and Jens 
> since their suggestions worked, and now I can write \lambda and 
> yupppieee it prints λ (as the previous char shows as I did it in 
> Thunderbird by iiimf)!

Wow, lovely!

> Now I can start to complete the table for most Latex symbols but before 
> doing that I will abuse once more of your kindness and ask two more 
> questions:

You are very welcome!

> 1) How can I specify codepoints instead of character in the [ phrase ] 
> section? I was expecting that I had to write something like
> \boxdot	0x22A1
> \vdash	0x22A2
> \dashv	0x22A3
> with some escape character.

You don't have to use any escape characters :-).
You can use them as same as regular text, like ordinary alphabet.

Please switch to UNICODE-HEX input method to type them in directly.
UNICODE-HEX entry usually appears in the last page of language
selector, so after bringing language selecter with shift-cntl-SPACE,
type PgDn a couple of times until you see UNICODE-HEX, then type in the
number appears on the UNICODE-HEX entry.

Now you get SQUARED DOT OPERATOR, RIGHT TACK, LEFT TACK(unicode names
of \boxdot, \vdash, \dashv) nicely as regular text without any hassle
by typing 22a1 22a2 22a3.

> 2) How can obtain, if I can, subscripts and superscripts, that is when I 
> write ^a then a appears in a superscript. I really have not a cue about it.

"Superscript a" is "COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER A" 0x0363, so
you can type in 0363 in UNICODE-HEX input method to create an entry in your
latex input method like above to produce it by typing ^a.

# BTW, when it comes to rendering, it depends on the rendering engine
# whether it actually perform combining, as Unicode does not have a code
# point as precomposed character for particular combination with
# Medieval superscript letter diacritics. I just type it in on gedit and
# it show superscript a aside of previous character.:-).

Hope it helps!
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