In November, Rub�n Barreto asked Otto Tronarp to have a look at http://www.lyx.org/helps/symbols to get the eurosign working on lyx, but the only possibilities I found on this site where usind \euro, \euros{500}, \euro{} and \EUR{500} after downloading the necessary CTAN packages.
For a symbol needed once in a month or so such methods may be sufficient, but the official currency symbol in the better part of Europe will be used that much that the only discutable method is using a standard font including it, like 8859-15 instead of the obsolete 8859-1 for those fewer than few years (?few months?) we can still survive without UTF8 and UNICODE, and using a national keyboard allowing to write it down by simply typing one key and perhaps AltGr, and this before the beginning of 2002 and not in a future so far. Is this possible by including an 8859-15-encoding in the /usr/share/lyx/encodings- and .lyx/encodings-dictionaries and adding the normal national X-keyboard to /usr/share/lyx/kbd and .lyx/kbd? The encoding tables seem to consist mainly of UNICODE numbers, so making a new table does not seem difficultl. Yours Hans Vogelsberger
