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
