Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic 
Hello


On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Olivier Ripoll
durocortorum73-gm...@yahoo.fr wrote:
 Using the normal Palatino font, I can get the checkboxes (3 states of
 them) using the insert-special characters-symbols... (in the
 miscellaneous symbols category).

I tried your suggestion and after inspecting the resulting PDF I
noticed that the checkboxes weren't Palatino, but provided by
'wasysym'. As I complained in the original post, I didn't quite like
them. It's nice to know that LyX is able to perform such substitutions
on the fly, but in this case it's not what I want.


 When using xetex/luatex (documents- settings- fonts), and choosing
 Palatina Lynotype font, they are replaced by a spiral in the pdf. Probably
 they are not available in that font, because they work fine with Deja Vu
 Sans.

I don't have Palatina Lynotype, but I found a way to trick LyX when
using non-TeX fonts: select 'URW Palladio' for Roman and 'Deja Vu
Sans' for Sans Serif, and then write your text in Roman but make sure
that the symbols inserted are marked as Sans. (See attached.) I think
I may go with this solution. The only caveat is that this assumes that
you don't use Sans for much else in the document.

Thank you
Liviu


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Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic 
Hello


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote:
 You could, e.g. use TeXGyre Pagella as main font.
 Then set up a secondary font containing the required symbol with fontspec
 in the user preamble

I tried this approach and after a bit of experimenting I came up with
a solution that allows me to use the necessary main fonts and add a
secondary 'DejaVu Sans' font family just for the checkbox.


 and use it changing fonts with ERT or a text style.

Now I can only use ERT to insert the checkbox. (See attached.) To use
a text style, would I need to define a custom inset in a new module?
Or is there a simpler approach?

Regards
Liviu


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Description: Binary data

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic 
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, PhilipPirrip p...@net.hr wrote:
 How about playing with

 preamble:
 \usepackage{amssymb}
 \usepackage{wasysym}
 \newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}}


 text
 ctrl-m \cbox

That's an interesting approach, albeit a bit hackish. For the moment I
think I'll stick to Guenter's suggestion.

Regards
Liviu




 or making a math macro of that kind?


 I can see that there's also a kern command implemented in the math
 environment in LyX, but I don't know how to use it.



 Yet another way would be to use
 http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2611/ballot_box_with_check.svg






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Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread PhilipPirrip 

On 09/25/2011 12:21 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, PhilipPirripp...@net.hr  wrote:

How about playing with

preamble:
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}}


text
ctrl-m \cbox


That's an interesting approach, albeit a bit hackish. For the moment I
think I'll stick to Guenter's suggestion.


Well, hackish is what you get any time you type a word LyX in  your 
document, isn't it? :)

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic 
Hello


On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Olivier Ripoll
durocortorum73-gm...@yahoo.fr wrote:
 Using the normal Palatino font, I can get the checkboxes (3 states of
 them) using the insert-special characters-symbols... (in the
 miscellaneous symbols category).

I tried your suggestion and after inspecting the resulting PDF I
noticed that the checkboxes weren't Palatino, but provided by
'wasysym'. As I complained in the original post, I didn't quite like
them. It's nice to know that LyX is able to perform such substitutions
on the fly, but in this case it's not what I want.


 When using xetex/luatex (documents- settings- fonts), and choosing
 Palatina Lynotype font, they are replaced by a spiral in the pdf. Probably
 they are not available in that font, because they work fine with Deja Vu
 Sans.

I don't have Palatina Lynotype, but I found a way to trick LyX when
using non-TeX fonts: select 'URW Palladio' for Roman and 'Deja Vu
Sans' for Sans Serif, and then write your text in Roman but make sure
that the symbols inserted are marked as Sans. (See attached.) I think
I may go with this solution. The only caveat is that this assumes that
you don't use Sans for much else in the document.

Thank you
Liviu


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Description: Binary data

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic 
Hello


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote:
 You could, e.g. use TeXGyre Pagella as main font.
 Then set up a secondary font containing the required symbol with fontspec
 in the user preamble

I tried this approach and after a bit of experimenting I came up with
a solution that allows me to use the necessary main fonts and add a
secondary 'DejaVu Sans' font family just for the checkbox.


 and use it changing fonts with ERT or a text style.

Now I can only use ERT to insert the checkbox. (See attached.) To use
a text style, would I need to define a custom inset in a new module?
Or is there a simpler approach?

Regards
Liviu


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Description: Binary data

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic 
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, PhilipPirrip p...@net.hr wrote:
 How about playing with

 preamble:
 \usepackage{amssymb}
 \usepackage{wasysym}
 \newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}}


 text
 ctrl-m \cbox

That's an interesting approach, albeit a bit hackish. For the moment I
think I'll stick to Guenter's suggestion.

Regards
Liviu




 or making a math macro of that kind?


 I can see that there's also a kern command implemented in the math
 environment in LyX, but I don't know how to use it.



 Yet another way would be to use
 http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2611/ballot_box_with_check.svg






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Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread PhilipPirrip 

On 09/25/2011 12:21 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, PhilipPirripp...@net.hr  wrote:

How about playing with

preamble:
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}}


text
ctrl-m \cbox


That's an interesting approach, albeit a bit hackish. For the moment I
think I'll stick to Guenter's suggestion.


Well, hackish is what you get any time you type a word LyX in  your 
document, isn't it? :)

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic 
Hello


On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Olivier Ripoll
 wrote:
> Using the "normal" Palatino font, I can get the checkboxes (3 states of
> them) using the insert->special characters->symbols... (in the
> "miscellaneous symbols" category).
>
I tried your suggestion and after inspecting the resulting PDF I
noticed that the checkboxes weren't Palatino, but provided by
'wasysym'. As I complained in the original post, I didn't quite like
them. It's nice to know that LyX is able to perform such substitutions
on the fly, but in this case it's not what I want.


> When using xetex/luatex (documents-> settings-> fonts), and choosing
> "Palatina Lynotype" font, they are replaced by a spiral in the pdf. Probably
> they are not available in that font, because they work fine with Deja Vu
> Sans.
>
I don't have "Palatina Lynotype", but I found a way to trick LyX when
using non-TeX fonts: select 'URW Palladio' for Roman and 'Deja Vu
Sans' for Sans Serif, and then write your text in Roman but make sure
that the symbols inserted are marked as Sans. (See attached.) I think
I may go with this solution. The only caveat is that this assumes that
you don't use Sans for much else in the document.

Thank you
Liviu


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Description: Binary data

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic 
Hello


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Guenter Milde  wrote:
> You could, e.g. use TeXGyre Pagella as main font.
> Then set up a secondary font containing the required symbol with fontspec
> in the user preamble
>
I tried this approach and after a bit of experimenting I came up with
a solution that allows me to use the necessary main fonts and add a
secondary 'DejaVu Sans' font family just for the checkbox.


> and use it changing fonts with ERT or a text style.
>
Now I can only use ERT to insert the checkbox. (See attached.) To use
a text style, would I need to define a custom inset in a new module?
Or is there a simpler approach?

Regards
Liviu


newfile1.lyx
Description: Binary data

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread Liviu Andronic 
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, PhilipPirrip  wrote:
> How about playing with
>
> preamble:
> \usepackage{amssymb}
> \usepackage{wasysym}
> \newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}}
>
>
> text
> ctrl-m \cbox
>
That's an interesting approach, albeit a bit hackish. For the moment I
think I'll stick to Guenter's suggestion.

Regards
Liviu


>
>
> or making a math macro of that kind?
>
>
> I can see that there's also a kern command implemented in the math
> environment in LyX, but I don't know how to use it.
>
>
>
> Yet another way would be to use
> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2611/ballot_box_with_check.svg
>
>
>



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Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-25 Thread PhilipPirrip 

On 09/25/2011 12:21 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, PhilipPirrip  wrote:

How about playing with

preamble:
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}}


text
ctrl-m \cbox


That's an interesting approach, albeit a bit hackish. For the moment I
think I'll stick to Guenter's suggestion.


Well, hackish is what you get any time you type a word "LyX" in  your 
document, isn't it? :)

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-20 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote:
 On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote:
 I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
 U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
 my document in a Windows environment.

 Do you know if I could continue using Palatino (Palladio) in my
 document (with LM for the rest), while randomly inserting Unicode
 chars like this that would use an OpenType font? I'd like to keep
 working with Palatino.

You could, e.g. use TeXGyre Pagella as main font.
Then set up a secondary font containing the required symbol with fontspec
in the user preamble and use it changing fonts with ERT or a text style.
See fontspec.pdf.

Günter

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-20 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote:
 On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote:
 I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
 U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
 my document in a Windows environment.

 Do you know if I could continue using Palatino (Palladio) in my
 document (with LM for the rest), while randomly inserting Unicode
 chars like this that would use an OpenType font? I'd like to keep
 working with Palatino.

You could, e.g. use TeXGyre Pagella as main font.
Then set up a secondary font containing the required symbol with fontspec
in the user preamble and use it changing fonts with ERT or a text style.
See fontspec.pdf.

Günter

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-20 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Guenter Milde  wrote:
>>> I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
>>> U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
>>> my document in a Windows environment.

> Do you know if I could continue using Palatino (Palladio) in my
> document (with LM for the rest), while randomly inserting Unicode
> chars like this that would use an OpenType font? I'd like to keep
> working with Palatino.

You could, e.g. use TeXGyre Pagella as main font.
Then set up a secondary font containing the required symbol with fontspec
in the user preamble and use it changing fonts with ERT or a text style.
See fontspec.pdf.

Günter

OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Liviu Andronic 
Hello
This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol
that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the
'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests
\CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in 'marvosym', both sloppy
executions (to my taste). I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
my document in a Windows environment.

Would you have some other suggestions? Regards
Liviu

[1] http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf



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Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote:
 Hello
 This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol
 that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the
 'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests
 \CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in 'marvosym', both sloppy
 executions (to my taste). 

I don't know of any other.

 I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
 U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
 my document in a Windows environment.

If the Windows environment in question has a xetex engine and a font that
contains the symbol, it should work.


Günter

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Liviu Andronic 
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote:
 I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
 U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
 my document in a Windows environment.

 If the Windows environment in question has a xetex engine and a font that
 contains the symbol, it should work.

Do you know if I could continue using Palatino (Palladio) in my
document (with LM for the rest), while randomly inserting Unicode
chars like this that would use an OpenType font? I'd like to keep
working with Palatino.

However, to answer your question, the Windows environment on the other
side of my laptop is badly out of date and features MiKTeX 2.8 (which
complains when trying to compile with XeTeX) and a broken Sweave
installation (I still haven't figured what I managed to break when
upgrading R). Since when using Windows I'm anyways mainly relying on
TeXLive on Xubuntu on a Virtual Machine, I may just go haywire and
experiment with LyX with TL on Windows.

Regards
Liviu

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread PhilipPirrip 

How about playing with

preamble:
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}}


text
ctrl-m \cbox



or making a math macro of that kind?


I can see that there's also a kern command implemented in the math 
environment in LyX, but I don't know how to use it.




Yet another way would be to use 
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2611/ballot_box_with_check.svg

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Olivier Ripoll 

On 19.09.2011 08:10, Liviu Andronic wrote:

Hello
This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol
that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the
'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests
\CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in 'marvosym', both sloppy
executions (to my taste). I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
my document in a Windows environment.


Hi,

Using the normal Palatino font, I can get the checkboxes (3 states of 
them) using the insert-special characters-symbols... (in the 
miscellaneous symbols category).


When using xetex/luatex (documents- settings- fonts), and choosing 
Palatina Lynotype font, they are replaced by a spiral in the pdf. 
Probably they are not available in that font, because they work fine 
with Deja Vu Sans.


Best regards.

Olivier.

(LyX 2.0.1, MikTeX 2.9 on windows 7)



Would you have some other suggestions? Regards
Liviu

[1] http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf

OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Liviu Andronic 
Hello
This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol
that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the
'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests
\CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in 'marvosym', both sloppy
executions (to my taste). I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
my document in a Windows environment.

Would you have some other suggestions? Regards
Liviu

[1] http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf



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Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote:
 Hello
 This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol
 that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the
 'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests
 \CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in 'marvosym', both sloppy
 executions (to my taste). 

I don't know of any other.

 I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
 U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
 my document in a Windows environment.

If the Windows environment in question has a xetex engine and a font that
contains the symbol, it should work.


Günter

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Liviu Andronic 
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote:
 I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
 U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
 my document in a Windows environment.

 If the Windows environment in question has a xetex engine and a font that
 contains the symbol, it should work.

Do you know if I could continue using Palatino (Palladio) in my
document (with LM for the rest), while randomly inserting Unicode
chars like this that would use an OpenType font? I'd like to keep
working with Palatino.

However, to answer your question, the Windows environment on the other
side of my laptop is badly out of date and features MiKTeX 2.8 (which
complains when trying to compile with XeTeX) and a broken Sweave
installation (I still haven't figured what I managed to break when
upgrading R). Since when using Windows I'm anyways mainly relying on
TeXLive on Xubuntu on a Virtual Machine, I may just go haywire and
experiment with LyX with TL on Windows.

Regards
Liviu

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread PhilipPirrip 

How about playing with

preamble:
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}}


text
ctrl-m \cbox



or making a math macro of that kind?


I can see that there's also a kern command implemented in the math 
environment in LyX, but I don't know how to use it.




Yet another way would be to use 
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2611/ballot_box_with_check.svg

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Olivier Ripoll 

On 19.09.2011 08:10, Liviu Andronic wrote:

Hello
This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol
that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the
'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests
\CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in 'marvosym', both sloppy
executions (to my taste). I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
my document in a Windows environment.


Hi,

Using the normal Palatino font, I can get the checkboxes (3 states of 
them) using the insert-special characters-symbols... (in the 
miscellaneous symbols category).


When using xetex/luatex (documents- settings- fonts), and choosing 
Palatina Lynotype font, they are replaced by a spiral in the pdf. 
Probably they are not available in that font, because they work fine 
with Deja Vu Sans.


Best regards.

Olivier.

(LyX 2.0.1, MikTeX 2.9 on windows 7)



Would you have some other suggestions? Regards
Liviu

[1] http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf

OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Liviu Andronic 
Hello
This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol
that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the
'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests
\CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in 'marvosym', both sloppy
executions (to my taste). I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
my document in a Windows environment.

Would you have some other suggestions? Regards
Liviu

[1] http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf



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Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Guenter Milde 
On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Hello
> This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol
> that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the
> 'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests
> \CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in 'marvosym', both sloppy
> executions (to my taste). 

I don't know of any other.

> I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
> U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
> my document in a Windows environment.

If the Windows environment in question has a xetex engine and a font that
contains the symbol, it should work.


Günter

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Liviu Andronic 
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Guenter Milde  wrote:
>> I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
>> U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
>> my document in a Windows environment.
>
> If the Windows environment in question has a xetex engine and a font that
> contains the symbol, it should work.
>
Do you know if I could continue using Palatino (Palladio) in my
document (with LM for the rest), while randomly inserting Unicode
chars like this that would use an OpenType font? I'd like to keep
working with Palatino.

However, to answer your question, the Windows environment on the other
side of my laptop is badly out of date and features MiKTeX 2.8 (which
complains when trying to compile with XeTeX) and a broken Sweave
installation (I still haven't figured what I managed to break when
upgrading R). Since when using Windows I'm anyways mainly relying on
TeXLive on Xubuntu on a Virtual Machine, I may just go haywire and
experiment with LyX with TL on Windows.

Regards
Liviu

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread PhilipPirrip 

How about playing with

preamble:
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\newcommand{\cbox}{\ensuremath\square\kern-0.7em\raise.3ex\hbox{\checkmark}}


text
ctrl-m \cbox



or making a math macro of that kind?


I can see that there's also a kern command implemented in the math 
environment in LyX, but I don't know how to use it.




Yet another way would be to use 
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2611/ballot_box_with_check.svg

Re: OT: checked box symbol

2011-09-19 Thread Olivier Ripoll 

On 19.09.2011 08:10, Liviu Andronic wrote:

Hello
This is slightly off topic. I'm looking for a (decent) LaTeX symbol
that would display a box that contains a check mark. I looked into the
'The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' [1], but it only suggests
\CheckedBox in 'wasysym' and \Checkedbox in 'marvosym', both sloppy
executions (to my taste). I could use XeTeX and insert the Unicode
U+2611 ☑, which looks nice, but I'm not sure I'll be able to compile
my document in a Windows environment.


Hi,

Using the "normal" Palatino font, I can get the checkboxes (3 states of 
them) using the insert->special characters->symbols... (in the 
"miscellaneous symbols" category).


When using xetex/luatex (documents-> settings-> fonts), and choosing 
"Palatina Lynotype" font, they are replaced by a spiral in the pdf. 
Probably they are not available in that font, because they work fine 
with Deja Vu Sans.


Best regards.

Olivier.

(LyX 2.0.1, MikTeX 2.9 on windows 7)



Would you have some other suggestions? Regards
Liviu

[1] http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf