On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Ronald Florence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Philipp Lehman writes: >>Actually they're not that readily available. > >Really? The only times I've tried to use PC wordprocessors, special >and foreign characters required clicking on menues or copying >characters from a clipboard. With LyX, those characters are as simple >as typing <compose> c 0 for © or <compose> r 0 for ®. [These >sequences are automatically configured on Solaris-Sparc keyboards and >probably readily available with other Unixes or Linux, depending on >the X-server implementation in use.]
Well, I was simply referring to the fact that Lyx doesn't offer any menus entries for inserting all availble special characters. You're right that keyboard mapping is very flexible under UNIX, but even if you're running your system in UTF-8 mode, Latex is still 8bit down to the bone, so the glyphs you can enter straight or with compose key bindings are still limited to stuff like ©®¤¢æÆ. I'll admit that I never tried Omega, though. -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
