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Keyboad-Layout and instructions for quicker (La)TeXing
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Keyboad-Layout and instructions for quicker (La)TeXing

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/con-f-use/latex-keyboard
• Owner: con-f-use
• Created: 2016-02-22T11:42:15.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-02-22T13:48:02.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-15T12:38:23.011Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Shell
• Size: 204 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Latex-Keyboard

Keyboad-Layout and instructions for quicker (La)TeXing

## Summary

With just a simple command it is possible to map any UTF-8 character in a LaTeX

document to just about every LaTeX command, as if the character was the actual

LaTeX command. While this is useful for allot of things, it is particularly

nice with a custom keyboard layout.

Here is an example LaTeX source before character mapping:

    f(x) = \int_{-\infty}^\infty \hat f(\xi)\ e^{2 \pi i \xi x}\,d\xi

And here the same source after:

    f(x) = ∫_{-∞}^∞ \hat f(ξ) e^{2πi ξ x} dξ

Not only is the second code more readable, but it is faster and easier to type,

if your keyboard layout looks like this:

![Custom keyboard layout for use with latex](./layout.png)

For people that type a lot in LaTeX or have special Symbols of other languages

that they use allot, this might be nice.

## Usage

Simple put these lines before `\begin{document}` in your latex file:

   \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

   \input{/path/to/unicodedecl.tex}

Where you have to replace `/path/to/unicodedecl.tex` with the actual path to

the file of same name in this repository.

## Installing the custom layout

### Ubuntu 14.04

On Ubuntu, setting up the custom keyboard layout is as easy as running this

script:

    ./installCustomLayout.sh

All it does is make a backup of the relevant layout file and then overwrite the

"English (Macintosh)" layout with the custom layout shown in the picture above.

Layouts are cached as binary files `/var/lib/xkb/server-*.xkm`. This means that

the script has to run `dpkg-reconfigure xkb-data`. On other systems/versions,

one might not have to run that command or delete the cache files and reboot

to take effect.

### Customization

The only changes to the layout file are between lines 675 and 746 in

./installCustomLayout.sh`. They should be fairly self explanatory and the

structure clear. Change the individual characters to what ever you use most.

# Alternatives

    \documentclass{article}

    \usepackage[mathletters]{ucs}

    \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

    \begin{document}

        The vorticity $ω$ is defined as $ω = ∇ × u$.

    \end{document}