Re: [Texmacs-dev] Keyboard shorthands for [d]dagger

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Hi,

> What's wrong with adding
> 
> ("+ var" "<dagger>")
> ("+ var var" "<ddagger>")
> 
> to kbd-math.scm ?  After all, those shorthands refer only to math mode,
> so they would affect only the math version of dagger and ddagger.

Nothing; in fact I already did that for the next version.
(+ var -> kreuz, + var var -> dag, + var var var -> ddag).

> My motivation for using a variation of '+' is the following:
> The adjoint of a matrix A is usually denoted by A^+ .  In Quantum
> Mechanics, there's a pair of operators, adjoints of each other, one of
> which is denoted by 'a'.  Not only is it not uppercase, like matrices
> usually are, but its adjoint is not denoted by a^+, but by a^\dagger. 
> This is the reason I chose "+ var" for the dagger shorthand.  The
> ddagger shorthand is obvious.

Notice that you might want to use H-' for this too.