Re: suggestion: searchbar for insert special character

[Diego Queiroz]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:

 I tried to insert a special character ½, and found it difficult to locate.
  I
 use kcharselect (from kde) to find it.  It has a search bar.  Just type in
 the
 term 'half', and it's the first thing shown (on my machine).

 My suggestion is add a searchbar to the insert special character.

 BTW, I can use kcharselect to locate a unicode character.  But, I don't
 think it
 would generally work to just paste in a unicode character to a LaTeX
 document,
 correct?


Usually, you can freely copy/paste some unicode chars to/from LyX (specially
symbols).
LyX automatically inserts all necessary packages and converts the char to
the correspondent LaTeX code.

To check, just try to copy/paste your ½ character to a new LyX document
and look to the source.
LyX includes the textcomp package and use the command \textonehalf{}.

Also, a good hint to search for unknown symbols in LaTeX is to use a image
classificator (like this one http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html).


Best regards,
---
Diego Queiroz

Re: suggestion: searchbar for insert special character

[Diego Queiroz]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:

 I tried to insert a special character ½, and found it difficult to locate.
  I
 use kcharselect (from kde) to find it.  It has a search bar.  Just type in
 the
 term 'half', and it's the first thing shown (on my machine).

 My suggestion is add a searchbar to the insert special character.

 BTW, I can use kcharselect to locate a unicode character.  But, I don't
 think it
 would generally work to just paste in a unicode character to a LaTeX
 document,
 correct?


Usually, you can freely copy/paste some unicode chars to/from LyX (specially
symbols).
LyX automatically inserts all necessary packages and converts the char to
the correspondent LaTeX code.

To check, just try to copy/paste your ½ character to a new LyX document
and look to the source.
LyX includes the textcomp package and use the command \textonehalf{}.

Also, a good hint to search for unknown symbols in LaTeX is to use a image
classificator (like this one http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html).


Best regards,
---
Diego Queiroz

Re: suggestion: searchbar for insert special character

[Diego Queiroz]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Neal Becker  wrote:

> I tried to insert a special character ½, and found it difficult to locate.
>  I
> use kcharselect (from kde) to find it.  It has a search bar.  Just type in
> the
> term 'half', and it's the first thing shown (on my machine).
>
> My suggestion is add a searchbar to the insert special character.
>
> BTW, I can use kcharselect to locate a unicode character.  But, I don't
> think it
> would generally work to just paste in a unicode character to a LaTeX
> document,
> correct?
>
>
Usually, you can freely copy/paste some unicode chars to/from LyX (specially
symbols).
LyX automatically inserts all necessary packages and converts the char to
the correspondent LaTeX code.

To check, just try to copy/paste your "½" character to a new LyX document
and look to the source.
LyX includes the textcomp package and use the command \textonehalf{}.

Also, a good hint to search for unknown symbols in LaTeX is to use a image
classificator (like this one http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html).


Best regards,
---
Diego Queiroz