I'm glad someone else asked this question, because this is a very important issue for me as well (it would be a great selling point for LyX if it supported unicode IPA characters out of the box).
I started playing around with 1.5 but found that, while LyX correctly displays unicode IPA characters and allows the screen font to be set to Doulos IPA ̆in Preferences, it does not typeset the file. The message is: Package inputenc error: Unicode char \utf8: not set up for use with LaTeX. I foolishly assumed this is a LaTeX problem and not a LyX problem, and gave up. (though I first did some feeble research into xeTeX, which led nowhere--I'm sure the problem can be solved, but I was hoping xeTeX wouldn't be required in this version of LyX). So there are plans to make LyX 1.5x work with ALL IPA unicode characters? Maria On 3/26/07, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Am Montag, 26. März 2007 20:32 schrieb Bennett Helm: > On Mar 26, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Johannes Knaus wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm quite new to Lyx so maybe this is simply an get-the-right- > > settings-issue. > > As Lyx 1.5 now should support unicode and I'm a Linguist, I'm > > trying simply to paste some IPA-Chars (Ipa-Extension of UTF-8) like > > in any other Unicode aware Application (Texteditors etc.) > > So, If I type > > > > øœæaɐɤʌzʁʝʐɖɳβɸʟɰlɮ > > > > in an editor and paste it into Lyx, I get: > > > > a???z?????????l? > > > > and this appears in the output, too. > > That's funny: I get "¯?Êa???z?????????l?" (or, rather, something > different that didn't cut-and-paste from LyX into Mail.app properly). > > ... In short, I can confirm the problem with some of these > characters. (I do not have a problem with pasting characters into LyX > like: éüº£≤≥æπøå˚∆œ…≈µ∑√Ω [and notice > the overlap with Johannes' characters: some of those paste correctly > for me]. But selecting those characters in LyX and pasting them into > Mail.app gives me: ȸÓß?∫£??Ê?¯Â?????µ???. Moreover, some > of the characters I can enter into LyX refuse to typeset, such as π.) Getting these characters to typeset is a matter of adding the correct LaTeX commands to lib/unicodesymbols. Since this file is far from complete, this problem is expected. It should be possible to copy/paste any unicode character from/to LyX. If you are using a qt version less than 4.2.3 you may see a qt bug. For details, see http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3307. Georg
