Letters are dictated using the community repository phonetic alphabet.
Greek letters can be dictated using their names except for theta, which is dictated by saying angle to improve accuracy (theta kept getting mixed up with beta and eta).
Capital english and greek letters can be dictated with Tall (letter) or Big (letter).
Because capital delta is more common in math than lower case delta, dictating delta produces upper case delta. Lower case delta is dictated as small delta.
There are three subscripting settings: automatic, automatic numbers, and manual. Regardless of which setting is active, dictating flat or straight before dictating letters prevents automatic subscripting of letters after them but will subscript subsequent numbers (including numbers immediately after exponentiation that was dictated immediately after letters).
Positive integers and letters dictated immediately after the dictation of any letter other than capital delta are automatically subscripted.
Positive integers and letters dictated immediately after any exponent dictated immediately after the dictation of any letter other than capital delta are also automatically subscripted.
Positive integers dictated immediately after the dictation of any letter or after any exponent dictated immediately after any letter are automatically subscripted. No automatic subscripting The active subscript setting can be changed by dictating "subscript setting" followed by the desired subscript setting name. The word auto can be used instead of automatic (so you can say subscript setting auto and subscript setting auto numbers).The default subscript setting upon launching talon can be changed by changing the user.equatio_default_subscript_setting in the settings.talon file. To do this, go to the setting in the file and change the text in single quotation marks to the name of the desired mode in all lower case.
Dictating squared raises the previous character to the second power.
Dictating cubed raises the previous character to the third power.
Dictating inverse raises the previous character to the minus first power.
Dictating transpose gives the previous character the superscript T.
Dictating perp gives the previous character the superscript the perpendicular symbol.
Dictating to the followed by an ordinal number from second, third ... through ninetyninth raises the previous character to the corresponding exponent (second gives 2, third gives 3, tenth gives 10, etc).
Dictating the above exponentiation commands immediately after something that will be automatically subscripted will cause the exponentiation to go into the subscript.
Dictating power starts a superscript.
Dictating poof starts a subscript in parentheses (poof is short for power of).
Dictating poof (transpose or pose): starts a superscript in parentheses with the parentheses followed by the transpose symbol.
Dictating puff (small positive integer) raises the previous character to that integer in parentheses.
Dictating puff (transpose or pose) (small nonnegative integer): raises the previous character to that integer in parentheses and transposed.
Dictating subscript, script, or sub manually starts a subscript.
who: moves the cursor to the right.
pass: moves the cursor to the right twice.
cape: presses escape, which usually exits the current text container. Note that a normal Talon setup already has the command escape that already presses escape.
back cape or shift cape: presses shift escape, which usually exits the current text container by moving back.
out: goes to the end of the current line and then to the right. Useful for things like exiting parentheses, subscripts, and superscripts.
leave or leaf: does the same thing as out twice.
move: goes to the end of the current line.
The following commands move to the right and input the specified symbol:rush: +
rine: -
rhyme or rhymes: *
ross: the cross multiplication sign
rash: /
reek or re quill or reeks or re quills or requal or requals: =
rough: ()
(the cursor is moved inside the parentheses)
stuff in square brackets is optional
plus: +
minus or negative: -
times or star or inner product or dot product: dot multiplication symbol
cross [product] or by: cross multiplication symbol
slash: / (starts division)
division [by] or divide [by] or quotient: division symbol
equal or equals: =
unequal or inequality or inequal: inequality symbol
approximately or approximate or approximation or approx: approximation symbol
proportional or proportional to or proportion: proportional to symbol
congruent: congruent to symbol
modulus or mod or percent or modulo: %
pipe or absolute value or absolute: starts absolute value
great [than] or greater [than] or bigger [than]: >
less [than] or lesser [than] or smaller [than]: <
(great or greater or bigger) [than] [or] (equals or equal) [to]: greater than or equal to sign
(less or lesser or smaller) [than] [or] (equals or equal) [to]: less than or equal to sign
tilde or similar [to]: ~
circle (product or times or cross): cross multiplication sign within a circle
circle dot: dot multiplication sign within a circle
bang or exclaim or exclamation [point]: !
summation: summation operator
product: product operator (not the multiplication sign)
choose or combo or combination: creates a parenthesized container that can hold two rows of math (used for things like n choose k)
ceilling: ceiling function
floor: floor function
(compose or composed or composition) [with or of] or small circle [shape]: function composition symbol
asymp or order [of] [magnitude]: order of magnitude symbol
equilibrium or balance: equilibrium symbol
square root or root or square root of or suit: square root symbol
plus or minus: plus or minus symbol
minus or plus: minus or plus symbol
[logical or logic] not: not symbol(logical or logic or lo) and or land: and symbol
(logical or logic or lo) or: or symbol
implies: implication symbol
if and only if or (dub or double) (implies or implication): double implication symbol
for all: for all symbol (upside down A)
[there] exists: there exists symbol (backwards E)
therefore: therefore symbol
because: because symbol
element [of]: element of symbol(prop or proper) subset: proper subset symbol
subset: subset symbol
superset or soup set: superset symbol
empty [set]: empty set symbol
not (in or [a] member [of]): not an element of the set symbol
union: union symbol
intersect or intersection: intersection symbol
[the] (real or reals) [numbers]: the real numbers symbol[the] integers: the integers symbol
[the] (rational or rationals) [numbers]: the rational numbers symbol
[the] (irrational or irrationals): the irrational numbers symbol
[the] natural numbers: the natural numbers symbol
parallel: parallel symbolperpendicular or normal: perpendicular symbol
angle (shape or symbol): a symbol representing an angle
triangle [shape]: creates a triangle shaped symbol
circle [circle]: creates a circle shaped symbol
square shape: creates a square shaped symbol
ray: creates the ray overhead symbol
vector: creates the vector overhead symbol
arc: creates the arc overhead symbol
line: creates the line overhead symbol
(hat or overhead or above) tilde: creates the overhead tilde symbol
dollar or dollars: $cent or cents: ¢
vertical [line] or vert line: creates a small vertical line
infinity or infinite: infinity symbol
norm: norm symbol
norm (small nonnegative integer): the specified integer norm
norm (infinity or infinite): the infinity norm
join [op or operator]: the relational algebra join operator
left join [op or operator]: the relational algebra left join operator
right join [op or operator]: the relational algebra right join operator
[full] outer join [op or operator]: the relational algebra outer join operator
assign or assignment: the relational algebra assignment operator
project or projection: the relational algebra projection operator plus subscript
select or selection: the relational algebra selection operator plus subscript
circle plus: a plus sign in a circle
circle dot plus: a dot above a plus sign in a circle
[right] arrow: a right arrow
limit: types lim and then subscripts.goes to: produces a right arrow.
integrate: produces an integral symbol and leaves the cursor at the integral's lower bound.integral: produces an integral symbol and moves the cursor to the right of it.
[(dub or double or triple)] (integrate or integral): the first part determines the number of integrals. If the first part is ignored, the command produces a single integral. If the first part is dub or double, the command produces a double integral. If the first part is triple, the command produces a triple integral. The second part determines whether the cursor should move to the right of the integrals or will be placed at the first integral's lower bound. Integral means moving to the right while integrate means moving to the first integral's lower bound.
[(dub or double or triple)] (integrate or integral) (with or of) [respect to] (a list of letters): the same as the previous command but puts parentheses followed by the list of letters with d before each letter after the integrals.
(integrate or integration or integral or from) line: produces a vertical dashed line with a subscript and superscript to denote from the subscript value to the superscript value (it would be better to produce a line that was not dashed, which is conventional, but EquatIO does not currently provide that capability). The cursor starts out within the subscript.
prime: creates the prime symbol. If used immediately after something that will be automatically subscripted, then the prime symbol will be created within the subscript.partial or part: creates the partial differential symbol.
derive: types out d/d.
derive [order or by] (small positive integer): similar to derive but raises each d to the power of the small positive integer.
derive [order or by] (small positive integer) of (letter): similar to the command above but puts the letter after the second d and then exits the fraction.
(partial or part) (derive or drive or rive): similar to derive but produces the partial differential symbol instead of the d's.
(partial or part) (derive or drive or rive) [order or by] (small positive integer): similar to the above command but exponentiates the partial differential symbols by the small positive integer.
(partial or part) (derive or drive or rive) [order or by] (small positive engager) of (letter): similar to the above command but puts the letter after the second partial differential symbol and then exits the fraction.
tangent or tan: tan
sine: sin
cosine: cos
secant: sec
cosecant: csc
cotangent: cot
degrees: creates the degrees symbol
log: log
L G: lg
(matrix or mat) (small positive integer) [by] (small positive integer): creates a matrix surrounded by square brackets with the number of rows specified by the first integer and the number of columns specified by the second integer.column (a small positive integer): creates a column surrounded by square brackets with the number of rows given by the integer.
layer (a small positive integer): creates a row surrounded by square brackets with the number of columns given by the integer.
(matrix or mat) column (small positive integer) [by] (small positive integer): creates a matrix built out of columns surrounded by square brackets with the number of rows given by the first integer and the number of columns given by the second integer. This is useful if you want to input entries a column at a time instead of doing it a row at a time. Note that the matrix navigation commands will treat each column as its own matrix.
By dictating the name of a matrix container in one of those commands before the first positive integer, those commands will use that container in place of the standard square brackets. Options currently include pipe or bar for vertical lines, pipes or bars for double vertical lines, brace for curly braces, paren for parentheses, and square or bracket for the standard square brackets.
[(matrix or mat)] augment (small positive integer) [by] (small positive integer): augments the current matrix with an empty additional matrix with the specified dimensions. Assumes that the cursor is to the right of the matrix to augment but within its container (the container is the stuff around the matrix, such as square brackets, parentheses, etc). The first integer gives the number of rows and the second integer gives the number of columns.
[(matrix or mat)] augment (small positive integer): same as the previous command but uses 1 as the number of columns.
The following movement commands assume that the cursor is within a matrix entry and not within another text container.[go or move or matrix] entry (a small positive integer) (a small positive integer): goes to the entry at the row specified by the first positive integer and the column given by the second positive integer.
[go or move or matrix] first entry: goes to the first entry of the matrix.
[go or move or matrix] last entry: goes to the last entry of the matrix.
[go or move or matrix] next entry: goes to the next entry of the matrix.
[go or move or matrix] (previous or back): goes to the previous entry of the matrix.
new column: creates a new column if within matrix.leave matrix left: leaves the matrix and goes to the left.
leave matrix right: leaves the matrix and goes to the right. Unfortunately, this command only moves to the right of the innermost container of the matrix, so using this command with a matrix with multiple containers (such as multiple parentheses, lines, or square brackets) does not completely get you out of the matrix.
send (a list of symbols that can be small integers, minus signs, or decimal points): inputs the symbols into the matrix and attempts to go to the next entry after each number (the cursor must not be within a text container within the matrix for it to go to the next entry properly). This command additionally interprets "oh" and "nil" as the number zero.
toss (a list of symbols that can be small integers, minus signs, or decimal points): the same as send but presses right twice at the end instead of only once.
pillar (a list of symbols that can be small integers, minus signs, or decimal points): creates a column matrix with the specified entries. The same as using the toss command into a predefined empty column matrix that has the same number of entries as numbers were dictated.
surface (a list of symbols that can be small integers, minus signs, or decimal points): creates a row matrix with the specified entries. The same as using the toss command into a predefined empty row matrix that has the same number of entries as numbers were dictated.
(die or diagonal) dots: produces diagonal dots.
(vert or vertical) dots: produces vertical dots.
This set up includes commands for pressing buttons provided that the user runs commands that will tell it where the buttons are. Dictating "update insert math" will tell the system that the insert math button is located at the cursor's current position. Dictating "update math return" will tell the system that the cursor's current position is the position to click on to return to editing math. Dictating "update equation editor" tells the system that the cursor's current position is the position to click on to toggle the equation editor. Dictating "update edit math" tells the system that the cursor's current position is the position of the edit math button.
The following commands can be used after the mouse positions are properly configured:
Dictating "insert math" will click the insert math button, then click back into the editor, and then select the text.
Dictating "math save" will perform the same actions as the insert math command but will also switch to the word document that the math is being inserted into and save the math after it gets inserted before clicking back into the editor.
Dictating "equatio edit" will click the edit math button and then, after a pause, click back into the editor. This command can be used even when equatio is not the current application or is even not running.
Dictating "equatio editor" or "equatio equation editor" will click the equation editor button. This command can be used even when equatio is not the current application or is even not running.
Dictating "math return" will click the math return position even if equatio is not the current application or not running.
To switch to the desmos calculator (or another browser based calculator) currently open, use the update desmos command to configure the mouse position to click on to make the calculator app active and configure the equatio_desmos_browser setting so that the knausj focus action can bring up your desired browser. Then use the desmos command from equatio.
text: creates a text field
text dictate: creates a text field and switches to dictation mode
text window: creates a text field, switches to dictation mode, and opens the draft window
finish: if in equatio and dictation mode, switches to command mode and exits the text field. If using the dragon speech engine with talon in equatio and not in command mode, the command switches to talon mode and exits the text field. This command is anchored (cannot be chained with other commands).
Dragon text: if using the dragon speech engine with talon, this will insert a text field and activate dragon mode. This command is anchored (cannot be chained).
weild (word): inserts the word into equatio inside a text field and exits the text field.
warp (word): inserts the word into equatio inside a text field surrounded by spaces.
peeled (word): inserts the word capitalized and with a space after it into equatio inside a text field.
sealed (dictation prose): inserts the specified prose into equatio inside an equatio text field surrounded by spaces.
Settings can be adjusted in the settings.talon file.
The user.equatio_selection_delay setting determines how long in milliseconds commands will pause after selecting text. Try increasing this if commands that select text are not working.
The user.equatio_clipboard_operation_delay setting determines how long in milliseconds commands will pause when using the clipboard. Try increasing this if commands that use the clipboard are not working.
The user.equatio_movement_delay setting determines how long in milliseconds commands will pause after performing certain kinds of movements. If some commands involving movement do not work, try increasing this.
The user.equatio_default_subscript_setting setting is described above in the discussion of subscript settings.
The user.equatio_desmos_browser setting determines which browser the desmos command will switch to. The setting should give a name that the knausj focus action can recognize.
The user.equatio_mouse_movement_delay setting determines how long in milliseconds commands should pause after moving the mouse. Try increasing this if any mouse commands are not working.The user.equatio_click_delay setting determines how long in milliseconds certain commands will pause after clicking to give time for the application to finish processing the click. If a mouse command does something too soon after clicking for it to work, try increasing this.
The user.equatio_insert_delay setting determines how long to wait in milliseconds for equatio to finish inserting math. If any commands do not wait long enough for equatio to finish inputting math to work properly, try increasing this.
The user.equatio_edit_delay setting determines how long to wait in milliseconds for equatio to finish loading math after clicking the edit math button. Try increasing this if any commands do not wait long enough for equatio to finish loading math to edit.
GitHub user whatIV contributed the initial code for building matrices, Leibnitz derivatives, and multiple integrals.