Those familiar with LaTeX may find the following tool useful: http://www.unicodeit.net/ It takes LaTeX symbols as input and outputs the unicode for them. There is a mac app available too, which will convert it in-place for you too.
Then I copy the character into the document I'm working on. Others have more efficient ways to enter Unicode from their keyboards, like having a list of codes and a keyboard layout that allows the codes to be entered efficiently.
also, most platforms I have used have some kind of software to look up characters, e.g. on OSX you have something like "character map" where you can search by name/category
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How do you get epsilon to appear in comments? The only docs I could find on formatting are http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc and it has no clues.
Those familiar with LaTeX may find the following tool useful: http://www.unicodeit.net/ It takes LaTeX symbols as input and outputs the unicode for them. There is a mac app available too, which will convert it in-place for you too.
The solutions to
a⋅x² + b⋅x + c
are given by
x = (-b ± √(b² - 4⋅a⋅c)) / (2⋅a)
φ ∩ (ψ ∪ ρ) ↔ (φ ∩ ψ) ∪ (φ ∩ ρ)
Thanks! I can't even begin to describe how useful this will be!
If I could upvote this more than once, I would!
> How do you get epsilon to appear in comments?
Unicode, of course: ε
When I need a Unicode character, I find it with my Unicode search page:
http://arachnoid.com/unicode
Then I copy the character into the document I'm working on. Others have more efficient ways to enter Unicode from their keyboards, like having a list of codes and a keyboard layout that allows the codes to be entered efficiently.
I just Google "unicode [name of character]". Hasn't let me down yet.
also, most platforms I have used have some kind of software to look up characters, e.g. on OSX you have something like "character map" where you can search by name/category