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Bob Greenwade wrote on Mon, Feb 26, 2024 12:52 AM UTC:

(Sadly adding entirely new modifiers will be difficult, as only the letter w is still unused.)

Actually, t is also unused. (But that only helps a little.)

Aside: I like the increasing use of punctuation here. So far I can find ()[]-?*', with a proposal for :; I'm not sure what's still available, though. At least +{}"`, I'm pretty sure, and I'm guessing at least most of \|@#$%&!, should anything more be needed that punctuation would cover. (I can't think of anything right now, though when certain new things are implemented I probably will).

Addendum: After a couple of hours, I thought of something. There probably should be some way to indicate that the same set of modifiers applies to multiple atoms; that would be handy for when that's being done with especially long modifier strings and/or several atoms. The simplest might be to enclose the atoms in parentheses, though putting a pipe (| sometimes used to mean "or") or double-quote (", sometimes used as "ditto marks," meaning "same as before") could work too. So (giving a more or less random example) while a (0,1)-Zigzag Nightrider is Nabl(abz)N, doing the same with a Buffalo, which would now be NCZabl(abz)Nabl(abz)Cabl(abz)Z, it would be NCZabl(abz)(NCZ), NCZabl(abz)N|C|Z (which would be my choice), or NCZabl(abz)N"C"Z.

(I'm not expecting that next week, or anything. It's just something to ponder.)


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