Subject basically says it all: When I try to edit a LaTeX child document
from within LyX 2.1.1 (by clicking 'edit' in the child document window)
I get an error message 'LyX: Cannot edit file. Auto-edit file
"path-to-file" failed.'
It does work with LyX child documents and it also works with LyX
El,
can't you use deadkeys in LyX on Mac?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_key#Dead_keys_on_various_keyboard_layouts
You might also want to try changing the keyboard layout to US International:
>From
>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=Howtotypeletterswit20100304073426167:
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