Thank you for the info! I'll give it a shot - I am also looking for a
possible replacement shape for the oval - perhaps an open 5-point-star
(unfilled)? Is there such a beast? I am running out of shapes (open circle,
box, diamond, triangle...)
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 08:13 pm, you wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > I NEED to be able to place a box symbol AND a box rotated 1/4 (a diamond)
> > and a vertical oval. I can only find a box and diamond symbol in the
> > Document Layout window under bullets. I don't want bullets, I want the
[...]
> > How can I use them in a normal paragraph as symbols?
[...]
> It seems likely you want to use the \ding(110) and \ding(117) characters
> (being a block and diamond respectively) so you can do this in LyX by
> either adding:
> \usepackage{pifont}
>
> to the preamble and then Insert->TeX
> \ding{110}
>
