Hi Juanjo, there are many ways of writing Greek characters.
The far easiest and thus the most simple way would be to select a
character from the symbols list:
Insert > Special character > Symbols > then select the category Greek or
Greek extended and click on the character to be inserted.
For more sophisticated tasks look for the "Comprehensive Latex Symbol
List" written by Scott Pakin, I think the latest edition is dated
November 2015. Be warned, it is huge!
Michael
On 06/05/2017 11:08 AM, Juanjo ML wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm trying to write down my thesis in Lyx, but I find kind of tricky
the way inputencoding is treated. When I try to write a greek
character such as delta, an error shows up.
I've tried two different ways:
* writing it in Latex Code (Ctrl + L) (a simple Latex block with
"\delta" within): it says "Missing $ inserted." and doesn't do
anything further. When I click "do it anyway", Latex code seems to
affect the whole line, till it finds a "special character", but my
greek letter does not appear.
* writing it as an inline equation (Ctrl + M) ("\delta" in a blue
square): "Package inputenc Error: Unicode char...", but pdf is
shown without clicking anything. It works, but I strongly believe
these errors shouldn't be there...
May you please help me to deal with this problem? Could you please
tell how to make it work in both ways?
Thank you all in advance!
Best regards,
Juanjo