>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Hucht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Fred> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> [...]
Fred> This is the version of latex.ltx/latex.fmt.
>> [...]
Fred> This is the version of article.cls.
>> >> Why are the dates different???
>>
Fred> See above...
>> I know that. However, it is certainly not normal that your latex
>> format is older than alrtcle.cls. I think you forgot to rebuild the
>> format...
Fred> The version is not changed when the format file is rebuilt. I
Fred> have, in share/texmf/web2c a rather actual format file:
Fred> -rw-r--r-- 1 inst inst 652734 Aug 23 14:12 latex.fmt
If the date shown at startup is old, then the format is old (remember
that this date is the version number of LaTeX). Your article class has
a newer version number than you latex kernel, and this should never
happen, as far as I know.
However, this is probably not the problem here...
>> [...]
Fred> I think lyx correctly translates ° into \textdegree, but
Fred> incorrectly surrounds it by \ensuremath{}. Is this also done
Fred> with other symbols?
>> It does not translate into \textdegree (this is done at latex
>> level). What it does (also for a bunch of other characters) is to
>> add \ensuremath{} around the character when encoding is
>> latin1. What I do not know is whether this is still needed, since
>> it is really a hack.
Fred> Sorry, but that's not true. As i wrote in my original mail, lyx
Fred> translates ° into \textdegree when the encoding is set to
Fred> Latin1, as then in the tex file I find
Fred> \ensuremath{\textdegree}. With default encoding (which encoding
Fred> is default?) lyx does not translate ° into \textdegree.
Are you sure?? I am very surprised:
fantomas: grep degree src/*
grep: src/CVS: Is a directory
Do you use some special kmap file or something?
JMarc
