Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Ananda Murthy R S wrote:
>
>> I am writing a technical book. In this I want to include list of
>> symbols used to indicate different quantities. Is there any package
>> which can be used for this?
>
> I found a 75-page pdf document that contains every symbol LaTeX
> can
> produce; probably every symbol in every language. :-) It was
> formatted for A4 page size so I converted it to letter size and
> printed it out. Extremely handy! Frequently there are more than one
> way of generating the symbol you want.
That of course is true. However, the latex and lyx way is more than
just cut and paste symbols isn't it? Use units.sty:
\usepackage{units}
in the preamble and
\unit[1]{m}
in the text as ERT. See units.dvi for the full documentation.
Alternatively, define math macros to get fantastic typesetting and a
reasonable approximation within LyX.
They'll probably end up looking like this on the LyX screen:
Macro: metres: [\unit[#1]{m}][#1m]
Macro: metres_per_sec: [\unitfrac{m}{s}][m/s]
--
Angus
