Autokey Unicode characters

Usage

This script adds all the unicode character abbreviations supported by Julia to autokey. However, instead of [TAB], they are triggered on [SPACE]. If you do not want perform the replacement, simply hit [BACKSPACE] afterwards.

Installation & Requirements

1. Install autokey. Only works on X11, no Wayland support.
2. Execute generate_phrases.py (requires python ≥3.7)
3. Restart autokey

Features

For overview see Supported Alphabets

Advantages of Unicode

1. Work even when MathJax / LaTeX is not available.
2. Is character efficient.
3. Increases readability of uncompiled documents.
4. Copy-paste persistance.

Compatibility with MathJax & LaTeX

1. MathJax supports unicode characters: $\sin(\theta)$ and $\sin(θ)$ should look exactly the same.
2. LaTeX has unicode compatibility, at least in math-mode when using the unicode-math package and compiling with LuaLaTeX

Known Issues & Limitations

• So far was only tested with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Autokey 0.95.10
• Seems to behave weird with Gnome Terminal, no idea what's going on.
• Can show strange behaviour with VSCode.
  • Seems to be fixable by deleting all [shift]+[insert] hotkeys combinations. (File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts)
  • Our macros here insert symbols with [shift]+[insert] and VScode seems to mess with that
• Composed characters seem to not always work as intended, not many editors render them correctly.
• Doesn't support multiple sub/super-scripts like Julia does (e.g. in REPL, a\^(k)+[TAB]) gives a⁽ᵏ⁾. With AutoKey we need to add the superscripts one at a time.
• Seems like it doesnt work with a German keyboard because AutoKey interprets \ and [AltGr]+? (what you type on a German keyboard to get backslash) as different things.

Supported Alphabets

Serif Font

Sans Serif Font

Speciality Font