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


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