Rodney Kanno wrote:
> I am having trouble trying to get the German character o with the two dots
> above the o. I have gotten as far as to set the document encoding to latin
> 1, and then inserting
>
> \usepackage {oldgerm}
this package has nothing to do with german umlauts. It supports
an old german language (kind of ancient one), with some
special character and font.
> \swabfamily *a *o *u
>
> as stated on the lyx tip & tricks page. but when I try to do a preview, I
> get the following error message
>
> Latex Error: Missing \begin{document}.
> \swabfamily *
> a *o *u
>
> What do I type in Lyx to get the "o" character? What's giving me the error
> message?
choose only latin1, and hit ���... if you have such keyboard
or at least "o,"a, .... in tex if nothing works
Herbert
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