Re: degree symbol in LyX on Linux with Compose key

2007-03-16 Thread John Pye
user's list we've run out of ideas on this one. Can anyone >>> here offer any suggestions? >>> >>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/37022 >>> >>> I note that as well as the degree symbol (°) then joined up a-and-e also >>&

Re: degree symbol in LyX on Linux with Compose key

2007-03-14 Thread John Pye
Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: > John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> It seems that part of the issue could be that Ubuntu has a local that >> uses unicode. Not sure what that means in detail, but perhaps it's a >> difference from Solaris? >> > > I thought that the key sequence ^* was s

Re: degree symbol in LyX on Linux with Compose key

2007-03-13 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:35:38AM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: > > > The (qt3 ?) bug remains: LyX prints all right the expected result of > > the key sequence, but leaves the first character of the sequence on screen > > (and on the output). > > I don't see this, but I

Re: degree symbol in LyX on Linux with Compose key

2007-03-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It seems that part of the issue could be that Ubuntu has a local that > uses unicode. Not sure what that means in detail, but perhaps it's a > difference from Solaris? I thought that the key sequence ^* was specific to Solaris, it seems that it applies to

Re: degree symbol in LyX on Linux with Compose key

2007-03-10 Thread John Pye
Andreas Vox wrote: > John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Hi all >> >> Over on the user's list we've run out of ideas on this one. Can anyone >> here offer any suggestions? >> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx

Re: degree symbol in LyX on Linux with Compose key

2007-03-10 Thread Andreas Vox
John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi all > > Over on the user's list we've run out of ideas on this one. Can anyone > here offer any suggestions? > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/37022 > > I note that as well as the de

Re: degree symbol in LyX on Linux with Compose key

2007-03-09 Thread John Pye
It seems that part of the issue could be that Ubuntu has a local that uses unicode. Not sure what that means in detail, but perhaps it's a difference from Solaris? Whether there is a native compose key or not is not really the issue, AFAICT. The issue is: why would characters fail to appear in LyX

Re: degree symbol in LyX on Linux with Compose key

2007-03-09 Thread John Pye
a bug. There is no reason why it should not be possible to enter a > degree symbol via the keyboard, if there is a key with that symbol. If > there is no key, then it is a bit trickier, but it should be possible > nevertheless to use some key combination. > Great! Now let's

Re: degree symbol in LyX on Linux with Compose key

2007-03-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
gt; It is a bug. There is no reason why it should not be possible to enter a > degree symbol via the keyboard, if there is a key with that symbol. If > there is no key, then it is a bit trickier, but it should be possible > nevertheless to use some key combination. > > > It see

Re: degree symbol in LyX on Linux with Compose key

2007-03-09 Thread Georg Baum
John Pye wrote: > Hi Helge > > The issue here, as far as I can tell, is: why doesn't LyX accept these > characters if they work fine in other X-windows applications on my > machine? It is a bug. There is no reason why it should not be possible to enter a degree symbol via th

Re: degree symbol in LyX on Linux with Compose key

2007-03-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Pye wrote: > I am writing a thesis on heat transfer. I want my degree symbol! In this case you'd probably use the SIunits package anyway: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/SIunits/ preamble: \usepackage{SIunits} text: 100\celsius\ or 100\degree (with \celsius and

Re: degree symbol in LyX on Linux with Compose key

2007-03-09 Thread John Pye
not get through. I am writing a thesis on heat transfer. I want my degree symbol! (and there's a higher degree I'm hoping for too :-P) Cheers JP Helge Hafting wrote: > John Pye wrote: >> Hi all >> >> Over on the user's list we've run out of ideas on this o

Re: degree symbol in LyX on Linux with Compose key

2007-03-09 Thread Helge Hafting
John Pye wrote: Hi all Over on the user's list we've run out of ideas on this one. Can anyone here offer any suggestions? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/37022 I note that as well as the degree symbol (°) then joined up a-and-e also doesn't work (æ). My

Re: degree symbol

1999-10-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
Peter Suetterlin wrote: > > Hi Garst, > > Do you have the compose key active? Then degree (°) is Compose ^ 0. > (see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose or similar) > > Peter BINGO! Thanks.

Re: degree symbol

1999-10-03 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Hi Garst, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > Note also that latin1 has this symbol so if you can make your keyboard > > procuce the X keysym "degree" using xmodmap or similar that would > > prob. be the simplest solution. > > > > Still latin1 is part of the solution. > > > > Lgb > Thanks. la

Re: degree symbol

1999-10-02 Thread Garst R. Reese
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote: > > "Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Alice just asked me how to make a degree symbol as in degrees Celsius. > | Surely there is an easier way than \usepackage{pifont} in the preamble > | and > | 200(

Re: degree symbol

1999-10-02 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Alice just asked me how to make a degree symbol as in degrees Celsius. | Surely there is an easier way than \usepackage{pifont} in the preamble | and | 200(ERT on)\Pisymbol{psy}{176}(ERT off)C. | Garst You should, if you use latin1

degree symbol

1999-10-02 Thread Garst R. Reese
Alice just asked me how to make a degree symbol as in degrees Celsius. Surely there is an easier way than \usepackage{pifont} in the preamble and 200(ERT on)\Pisymbol{psy}{176}(ERT off)C. Garst