Hi all I have been trying to work out how to make the degree symbol appear in Lyx. There was a thread on this recently but it was all about using mathematical equations, whereas I want to just insert the symbol as a regular character.
Under Ubuntu, one can use the Keyboard preferences to set up a 'Compose' key (I chose 'right ALT'). Once that is done, I can open a text editor (gedit) and get all the accented characters é and ô and ñ etc very nicely. I can even get the degree symbol using the sequence of keys (pressed and released in sequence): right-alt ^ 0. Like so: ° But when I move over to LyX, the accented character come out correctly, but the degree symbol does not appear. Nothing appears when I use the same key sequence as above. I can copy the degree symbol and paste into LyX using Paste External Selection As Paragraphs, but I cannot generate the character directly in LyX. This is ubuntu 6.10 running standard deb package LyX 1.4.3. Has anyone using Ubuntu been able to make this work correctly? Cheers JP -- John Pye Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia http://pye.dyndns.org/
