David Wolfson wrote:
Hi,Through the wonders of wine, I've managed to get some figures from an old excel sheet added into a lyx file as floats, but need to add symbol definitions in the caption. I've found most of the symbols listed as part of the ifsym font in the 'comprehensive list of LATEX fonts' from CTAN, but can't get them to work. For example, I need a filled triangle but adding \FilledTriangleUp as ERT gives an error:Undefined control sequence. \FilledTriangleUp I tried adding \usepackage{ifsym} in the preamamble,
I think you need \usepackage[geometry]{ifsym} to get \FilledTriangleUp.
> and I guess you'll not be
surprised to hear that I get another error: LaTeX Error: File `ifsym.sty' not found.
This would suggest that ifsym is not properly installed. Did you (a) install it and (b) update your TeX file database? If so, try 'kpsewhich ifsym.sty' from a shell to see if the system knows where to find it.
\usepackage {babel}^^M *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes) So I'm guessing that I need to install another font. I've found ifsym at CTAN: ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/fonts/ifsym/ but have no idea what to do with it!I've been looking round the archives/google/CTAN, and have found the rather intimidating (103 pages) of 'the font installation guide': ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/fontinstallationguide.pdf and some information in the TEX FAQ:http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instfontwhich goes right over my head! Do I need to go through all this with Lyx, or can someone point me in the right direction please?I'm using Lyx1.3.5 installed from rpm on mandrake10.1... Thanks very much, Dave
FWIW, I had no trouble installing ifsym (MiKTeX), and no problem compiling a LyX document containing \FilledTriangleUp (meaning it generated the DVI file), but Metafont choked trying to generate the necessary fonts. It seems to think there is a syntax error in either ifgeo10.mf or (more likely) ifgeo.gen, which the former includes.
Paul
