Hi,
I am a pretty new user of lyx (with little idea of latex) and have run into
two problems, both relating to using German umlauts in lyx (1.3.5). Basically
(I type them, dvi/pdf displays them) they work fine, but spell checker and
bibliography cause some problems (also with the sz-ligature):
The spell checker stops with an error ("Spell checking failed") whenever I
want to add a new word to the dictionary that contains an umlaut or an
sz-ligature.
The bibliography displays umlauts, but can't cope with the sz-ligatures
(converting them to "ss" in the author names - not in the book title) . Also,
the sorting algorithm puts umlauts as the last letters of the alphabet, e.g.
sorting in f"aa after foo. As far as I know, an umlaut (e.g. "o) can be
treated as "oe" or simply as "o", while the sz-ligature is indeed treated
(but not spelt) as "ss" for sorting.
I am using a customised bibtex style created with the makebst tool; in the
document settings, natbib-use is enabled. I use tkbibtex to enter my
bibliographic data.
I found a number of things on the web on umlaut problems, but haven't seen
anything that covers the sorting and the lyx-specific spell checking issue.
But perhaps somebody has already cracked these particular nuts.
Thanks for any ideas!
Tilo
