On 2018-02-19, F M Salter wrote:
> To explain in more detail. LyX uses utf-8. utf-8 is standard on
> most operating systems.
> RTF is obsolescent and is not a text file.
> If I insert utf-8 italic characters into a LyX file, the plain text
> output contains italic characters.
Fine.
You mean the italic characters in the "Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols"
block , right?
> I wanted to know if there was a LyX method which would produce
> italic utf-8 characters from emphasised text.
No. This would go against the intended use of the
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols. The Unicode standard says:
@@ 1D400 Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols 1D7FF
@@+
@+ To be used for mathematical variables where style variations
are important semantically.
For general text, use standard Latin and Greek letters with markup.
Most fonts will also display these mathematical letters different from
text (no kerning, wider spacing) and there are many missing characters
(Umlauts ...).
> If not, this would become a feature request.
An Unicode-compatible option would be to underline emphasized text with
compose-characters, but I don't know whether this would be regarded a good
idea by the developers.
I could rather imagine export to a minimalistic markup format like
reStructuredText or MarkDown.
sincerely,
Günter
