Ben Finney writes:
I've shown several LaTeX-comfortable people IBus on GNOME and/or KDE (for GNU+Linux), and they were very glad that it has a LaTeX input method.
I'm happy to be proved wrong!
AFAICS it's not available on my Mac.
That's a shame. Maybe some OS vendors don't want to support users extending the OS functionality? Or maybe your OS does have such a thing available. I haven't been motivated to look for it.
I have looked for it; if it's available on Mac OS X, it's not easy to find. I suspect the same is true for Windows.
Agreed. Which is why I advocate installing such an input method in one's OS input method engine, so that input method is available for all applications.
Whatever makes you think I don't? That's *exactly* why I live in XEmacs, because it provides me with a portable environment for mixing English and math with a language whose orthography puts Brainf*ck syntax to shame. But pragmatically speaking, Unicode support is a sore point for Python. "Screw you if you don't know how to conveniently input integral signs on your OS" is not a message we want to be sending.