Does anyone know of an input method for APL that works similar to an IME that you would use for Japanese?
Basically you type the name of the operator in latin characters and get the proper symbol autocompleted.
I only see direct key to symbol mappings which might be fine for a full time APL dev but offer a bit too much of a learning curve for just trying it out.
The Windows emoji keyboard (Win+. or Win+; whichever is more comfortable for you) has a lot of the Unicode math symbols under its Symbols tab (marked with an omega). It has a pretty good IME-ish type to search experience for regular emoji, but doesn't support type to search under the Symbols tab. (I wish it did and hope it is something they consider adding.)
In some editors you can change the prefix character (in emacs I think the default is . or I changed it to . almost immediately). Also in emacs (though I didn't try this with APL) you can use an entry method based on TeX so if you type:
Basically you type the name of the operator in latin characters and get the proper symbol autocompleted.
I only see direct key to symbol mappings which might be fine for a full time APL dev but offer a bit too much of a learning curve for just trying it out.