Thanks Jürgen, it worked Incidentally, How does M-x work. Is "M" some special key that you hold down. I have a macbook, so I have fn,ctrl, alt and cmd -is it one of them?
Thanks again for saving my day regard Christiaan On 01/04/2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Christiaan Pauw wrote: > > Does anyone understand what this means or how i can fix it? > > > Yes. Since you're using a Greek µ (mu) character, LyX is switching to > greek > encoding, but you do not have the appropriate Greek fonts installed. > > One solution (apart from installing this font) is, as Bennett pointed out, > to > switch to math mode. > > Another one is to use the correct symbol "MICRO SIGN" instead of the > (similar-looking) "GREEK SMALL LETTER MU". You can insert the correct > symbol > in LyX by the sequence "M-x unicode-insert 0x00b5" (where M-x opens > the "mini-buffer"). Or just copy it from here: µ. > > If you use such units a lot, you might consider using a special package, > such > as SIunits. > > > Jürgen >