On 12.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 12 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > > i would like to summarize the my understanding of the problems i > > encountered, please comment on: > > > > 1. Screen painting.
> > after installing unicode fonts for X displaying ancient greek letters > > works in lyx without problems. > Not here. I've set "language" to Greek and I've tried every available > encoding, including utf8x, but the characters on-screen never change at > all. This is not about conversion but display: * If you paste polytonic Greek text from e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_diacritics, this should show up in greek letters with diacritics at the correct place. * If you input latin letters and ASCII-chars for diacritics following the convention of the "greek" language option of babel and set the language to "greek", these will be converted to greek letters in the output only. This is the same level of support as for German, say where e.g. "a is converted to ä in the output (but not in LyX). It differs from the handling of math symbols where a set of known symbol-commands like \alpha or \int are rendered as symbols in LyX. > Unless there is some way to get this to work there is no real point in > fiddling with the rest of it. If latin->greek input conversion is what you want, the way to go would be switching the keyboard layout, so LyX sees the correct unicode char whenever you press the "right" key or key-combo. This is similar to my use of a German keyboard layout in order to be able to input ä and ß at the expense of having to use AltGr-+ for the tilde ~. Alternatively, you might try OpenOffice with the Thessolonica extension: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/thessalonica-ooo.html Günter
