Alternatives to . for composition

[Nils Anders Danielsson]

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> For emacs, just bind a key (C-. say) to (ucs-insert
>  #X2218). ucs-insert comes from ucs-tables.

You can also activate the TeX input method using C-u C-\ TeX RET (if
leim is installed). Then you can insert many characters by typing
their TeX names. The character ∘ can be inserted by typing \comp, for
instance.

Of course, this is not very useful unless you already know some TeX.

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