Les Denham wrote: > I know one solution has already been given, but the following works > perfectly for me: > > Insert->Special Character->Symbols and select the ♥ from Miscellaneous > Symbols.
Yes, the character is supported by LyX's unicode symbol table. I suppose Frederick does not have the txfonts installed properly, and hence the \usepackage{pxfonts} did make the difference. (this is also here with TeXLive 2010: txfonts gives a pdflatex error). Jürgen