Re: request for permission to add more symbols to unicodesymbols file

2007-05-27 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Note that the characters > ∆, ∏, ∑ > > are no Greek characters, they are math characters defined in a different > unicode chart region than Greek! I see. I suppose it's o.k. to transfer them to math, then. Jürgen

Re: request for permission to add more symbols to unicodesymbols file

2007-05-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: I never wrote that I intend to change greek characters, only the characters I listed. Here's the list again: ∂, ∆, ∏, ∑, ∕, ∙, ∞, ∟, ∩, ∫, ≈, ≤, ≥, ≡, and ≠ Note that the characters ∆, ∏, ∑ are no Greek characters, they are math characters defined in a different unicode ch

Re: request for permission to add more symbols to unicodesymbols file

2007-05-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> I'm not sure it's a good idea to encapsulate greek characters in mathed. After > all, they're _primarily_ greek characters (rather than math symbols). If I, > as a human scientist, copy some greek quotation in my paper, I don't want > them to appear as a formula. I never wrote that I intend to

Re: request for permission to add more symbols to unicodesymbols file

2007-05-27 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Does LateX support utf8 greek? You have to switch to language greek, I think. Jürgen

Re: request for permission to add more symbols to unicodesymbols file

2007-05-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: It depends on what LateX accept. If \alpha can be recognized directly by LateX (maybe with > textcomp?), I see no reason to encasulate that in a TeX formula. No, \alpha can't be read by LaTeX in text mode and I don't want to add all greek characters,

Re: request for permission to add more symbols to unicodesymbols file

2007-05-27 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Edwin Leuven wrote: > > as a human scientist > > i see you've attended an intergalactic conference recently Yes, Dr. Strangelove, I did. Jürgen

Re: request for permission to add more symbols to unicodesymbols file

2007-05-27 Thread Edwin Leuven
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: as a human scientist i see you've attended an intergalactic conference recently unsettling isn't it? ;-)

Re: request for permission to add more symbols to unicodesymbols file

2007-05-27 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > It depends on what LateX accept. If \alpha can be recognized directly by > > LateX (maybe with > >  > textcomp?), I see no reason to encasulate that in a TeX formula. > > No, \alpha can't be read by LaTeX in text mode and I don't want to add all > greek characters, only the mat

Re: request for permission to add more symbols to unicodesymbols file

2007-05-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> It depends on what LateX accept. If \alpha can be recognized directly by LateX (maybe with > textcomp?), I see no reason to encasulate that in a TeX formula. No, \alpha can't be read by LaTeX in text mode and I don't want to add all greek characters, only the math characters widely used also

Re: request for permission to add more symbols to unicodesymbols file

2007-05-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Uwe Stöhr wrote: While working on the unicodesymbols stuff I took some Word-files to test if I can copy text from Word to LyX. This is still not in every case working because Windows and Word provide the following math characters to be used directly in texts that have curently no entry in the

Re: request for permission to add more symbols to unicodesymbols file

2007-05-26 Thread Bo Peng
This issue should be solved before LyX 1.5.0 because we promise unicode support and I expect many complains when the users can't copy text into LyX without getting encoding errors. I agree with this although I have no idea about the implementation. Bo