Patrick De Visschere wrote:
> I have converted a (Framemaker) document to lyx. The document
> contained a lot of Symbol-font characters (mostly greek letters)
> which are translated into their unicode characters.
> These characters are immediately visible in the lyx-window but not in
> the output: some characters are handled automatically but the greek
> letters are not. They are probably converted to \textpi,
> \textgamma ... and latex does not know how to handle these because
> they are not present in the T1 encoding.
> They are handled (mostly) correctly if I put them between \greektext
> \latintext commands.
>
> I cannot imagine this is the best way to solve this problem.
>
> I would appreciate if someone could explain how unicode characters
> should be handled? Is this a latex-problem?
Greek (and cyrillic) characters in "latin" text are not handled yet
automatically.* You best bet for now is probably to mark those characters
as "greek" (Edit->Text Style->Customized->Language) or to enclose them in
\greektext{}.
> I know that there exists a list of unicodesymbols which apparently is
> made for this purpose : handle characters which are not present in
> the current encoding. The above mentionned greek letters \textpi ...
> seem not (yet?) present in this list.
No, they're not.* It is still not clear how to handle them best.
Jürgen
* if we're talking about real greek characters, that is. Characters like Ohm
are encoded differently and should be handled.
