Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> >> As LyX 1.5.3 is Unicode-compliant, my tex editor supports unicode
> >> characters, and XeTeX can access all unicode fonts in the operating
> >> system, I do not need in my latex file the tex formatting for
> >> diacritics, e.g., \={a}, \d{m}, \~n, etc..
> >>
> >> How should I prevent such formatting in the LaTeX file that I export
> >> from LyX?
>
> This can be done by changing the corresponding entries in the file
> "unicodesymbols" that is part of LyX. This file is designed, to translate
> unicode characters to commands that are suppoerted by certain
> LaTeX-packages.
Even better, chose the inputencoding "utf8-plain". Then you can export without
messing up the unicodesymbols file. You can even directly process with xetex,
cf.
http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX
> Support for XeTeX won't be in the next version 1.6 that will released this
> year. Personally, I plan to support it in LyX 1.7. But this requires, that
> XeTeX is better supported by existing LaTeX packages.
Actually, I have some support for it in my tree. I'm not sure I'll finish that
in time, though.
Jürgen
