2009/7/30 Christian Ridderström <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I searched the lists for how to type a degree symbol in LyX under Windows > and didn't find something that I thought was really easy. So here's an > alternative (which may well have drawbacks), e.g that it requires your > keyboard to have some kind of numeric key pad. Here goes: > > In order to type the degree symbol, press and hold down the Alt key while on > the numeric key pad typing 0176. (The '0' is needed.) > > This method worked in my LyX under Windows XP. > > The page > http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html > contains similar codes for lots of other symbols. > > Caveat: There might be drawbacks with this method that I haven't tested, and > it would be much nicer if I had the equivalent of a Compose-key in Windows. >
I did not test your solution yet, but Alt+0code combination is well know Windows feature (it accepts unicode numbers too). The question unanswered here is whether character entered this way will be correctly handled by latex in all cases? -- Manveru jabber: [email protected] gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
