On 08/16/2016 09:23 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2016-08-15, Michael Berger wrote:
On 08/14/2016 11:34 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
On 08/14/2016 08:24 AM, Michael Berger wrote:
it is as you said, but not only applies to symbols in ERT but in other
cases in ordinary text as well.
There are several cases of symbol-characters in LyX:
1. ERT (LyX shows the symbol name in red) in a LaTeX box in text
2. ERT (LyX shows the symbol name in red) in mathed
3. Unicode character in text
4. Unicode character in mathed
5. math-symbol in mathed (LyX changes the input text into a symbol or
supports inserting via menu).
* With 1) and 2), you are on your own - see in the symbol list which
package is required and add it to the user-preamble.
* Variants 3 to 5 should auto-load a package if required.
If not, file a bug report (or mail to the list) which symbols fail and
whether in text or math mode.
You can also try to copy the "unicodesymbols" file from the LyX dir to the
LyX user dir (~/.lyx/ on Unix) and add definitions for missing characters.
(post your patches...).
What I must conclude now is that there is no consistent rule in using
symbols from Scott Pakin's 'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' (Nov.
2015).
And this is not at all surprising when looking at the huge amount of
14032 symbols listed there, just good to know!
In addition, not all of the packages listed there work together and some
nameclashes exist...
Günter
Thanks Günter,
for your very informative comment (I wasn't really aware of all these)
but then a bit too much of a challenge to me as a user.
Most of my documents are of type linguistics and meanwhile I get pretty
well along with #1 and #2 - being aware that there are clashes and not
every symbol from the list works (in cases not even if they are from the
same group). Knowing now what is fact I can live with it.
My engineering documents are loaded with heaps of formulas but so far I
have not been facing problems here inserting symbols.
Then I tried around with #5 and find the variety of available symbols
simply to be inserted via menu is enormous.
I will attend to that "unicodesymbols" file you mentioned - sounds
interesting! But adding definitions for missing characters is something
I've never done before :-\
Cheers,
Michael
