On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 07:56:58AM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote:
> Dear LyXers,
>
> in my teaching documents, terms like $1 \cdot 1$ are regularely required.
>
> In Germany, the \cdot (·) is the common multiplication operator and it is
> also available on the keyboard as [AltGr ,].
>
> Unfortunately, pressing [AltGr ,] in mathed inserts \text{·} instead of
> \cdot. (This is bug #9616 http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9616 )
>
> The text character looks similar in most fonts but has the wrong spacing.
>
> Currently, I have to go back and press backspace to dissolve the text inset
> everytime after inserting a center dot. This is very cumbersome.
>
> Binding · to "math-insert \cdot" has the side-effect that the math-command
> is also inserted in text.
>
> Is there a quick workaround to let [AltGr ,] insert \cdot in mathed and · in
> text (maybe using command-alternatives or so)?Not that I know of. I think the following ticket might look familiar to you :) http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5286 It would indeed be nice to have that fixed, for a few reasons. Scott
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