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

[Nix N. Nix]

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 02:37, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> 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).

Highly cool !

> 
> > 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.

Huh ? What is H-' ?  Doesn't do anything special ... It's just H' ...