using special characters (non-greek) in glosses

2016-02-07 Thread Michael Berger
Hi all, this may be of interest to those writing linguistic papers with glosses and facing problems related to the subject. I had to add the character Ø in a gloss which is found in Insert > Special Character > Symbols > Latin-1 Supplement. Knowing that this is cannot be done in verbatim text

Re: Special Characters in References

2013-06-06 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Thursday, 6. June 2013, 22:45:11 schrieb Tim Wescott: > Bibliography environment (at least so I think). Here's a file that > shows the problem. > > On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 14:09 -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > > On 06/06/2013 02:05 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: > > > I'm trying to reference a book by a Sw

Re: Special Characters in References

2013-06-06 Thread tim
Thank you. That fixes that (I looked for something like Insert->Special Characters and did not find it -- I'm not alert today, or something). On 2013-06-06 16:57, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 06.06.2013 22:45, schrieb Tim Wescott: Bibliography environment (at least so I think). Here'

Re: Special Characters in References

2013-06-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 06.06.2013 22:45, schrieb Tim Wescott: Bibliography environment (at least so I think). Here's a file that shows the problem. But it works fine if you use the characters directly (menu Insert->Special Characters->Symbols). Attached is your fixed file. regards Uwe reference_p

Re: Special Characters in References

2013-06-06 Thread Tim Wescott
Bibliography environment (at least so I think). Here's a file that shows the problem. On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 14:09 -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > On 06/06/2013 02:05 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: > > I'm trying to reference a book by a Swedish author. Putting > > {\AA}strom95 as a key in my bibliographic

Re: Special Characters in References

2013-06-06 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/06/2013 02:05 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: I'm trying to reference a book by a Swedish author. Putting {\AA}strom95 as a key in my bibliographic entry causes the table at the end of the article to print correctly, but in the text I get [?]. Is there a way to do this, or am I stuck with Astrom o

Special Characters in References

2013-06-06 Thread Tim Wescott
I'm trying to reference a book by a Swedish author. Putting {\AA}strom95 as a key in my bibliographic entry causes the table at the end of the article to print correctly, but in the text I get [?]. Is there a way to do this, or am I stuck with Astrom or Aastrom (neither of which thrills me). --

Re: Find & Replace: using special characters and formatting

2007-12-20 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi Guenter and Paul, thanks for your answers! This was pretty much what I was doing - I was just not sure if it would mess up something since the line break changes,... Is there something special I have to be carefully about? Toby I don't know enough to answer that, ot

Re: Find & Replace: using special characters and formatting

2007-12-20 Thread Tobias Krause
Hi Guenter and Paul, thanks for your answers! This was pretty much what I was doing - I was just not sure if it would mess up something since the line break changes,... Is there something special I have to be carefully about? Toby

Re: Find & Replace: using special characters and formatting

2007-12-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi, is it possible to use special characters and formatting (e.g. protected space, emphasize,...) in Find & Replace? I don't think so. In particular I'd like to search for "abc de" and replace it by "/abc_de/" (italic, _ = protected s

Re: Find & Replace: using special characters and formatting

2007-12-19 Thread G. Milde
On 19.12.07, Tobias Krause wrote: > Hi, > is it possible to use special characters and formatting (e.g. protected > space, emphasize,...) in Find & Replace? > In particular I'd like to search for "abc de" and replace it by > "/abc_de/" (italic, _ = pro

Find & Replace: using special characters and formatting

2007-12-19 Thread Tobias Krause
Hi, is it possible to use special characters and formatting (e.g. protected space, emphasize,...) in Find & Replace? In particular I'd like to search for "abc de" and replace it by "/abc_de/" (italic, _ = protected space). If - as I guess - LyX does not support th

Re: copy and paste special characters and ERT

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Heck
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: My wife wanted to do a search and replace to replace 1/2 with � and 3/4 with � but we couldn't paste that with Ctrl-V or middle-click (in X). So I used vim to edit the lyx document. Also I wanted to replace '1/3' with the corresponding evil red text. How can I paste in

copy and paste special characters and ERT

2007-08-13 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
My wife wanted to do a search and replace to replace 1/2 with ? and 3/4 with ? but we couldn't paste that with Ctrl-V or middle-click (in X). So I used vim to edit the lyx document. Also I wanted to replace '1/3' with the corresponding evil red text. How can I paste in ERT in the Find dialog?

Re: special characters

2007-02-14 Thread Richard Heck
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Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane schrieb: > > > > > No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I > > normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, > but > > I get some very badly formatted Word documents > for > > internal use. Occasionally it is easier to

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something readab

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > >> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I > didn't > >> produce the document but a search and replace is > easy > >> enough. > I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: >> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't >> produce the document but a search and replace is easy >> enough. I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable the Smart Quote option within Word, it may well just

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > > My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly > > quotes) > LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, > so you should be > able to search and replace, in Word,

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: > My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly > quotes) LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be able to search and replace, in Word, for that (though there is a Smart Quote option or somesuch that y

MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-12 Thread John Kane
What is the current approach to importing Word documents to LyX? I don't want to do anything fancy. I have some very poorly formatted Word docs (working docs not for publication) and I have found that simply cutting and pasting the text into LyX and doing a bit of formatting can save me a lot of f

Re: Problem with special characters

2005-06-16 Thread Jose' Matos
On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:33, Kimmo Elo wrote: > Hi, > > since the KDE 3.4->3.4.1 update I have a problem with special characters > with Lyx 1.3.5 in SuSE 9.2. Before that I could easily write e.g. ü or > é in Lyx, now there appear "u and 'e instead. I have to use Ly

Problem with special characters

2005-06-15 Thread Kimmo Elo
Hi, since the KDE 3.4->3.4.1 update I have a problem with special characters with Lyx 1.3.5 in SuSE 9.2. Before that I could easily write e.g. ü or é in Lyx, now there appear "u and 'e instead. I have to use Lyx-code (\"{u}) to get this chars straight. In all other programs

Re: Special Characters

2004-04-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:06:00PM +0200, Ansgar Hoffmann wrote: > I had expected though, the R in a circle being slightly smaller and > higher than the rest. E.g. like the \textrademark or a footnote. Than use \textsuperscript\texttrademark > So I reckon, as long as I know how to insert the sym

Re: Special Characters

2004-04-09 Thread Glen Shadbolt
Ansgar Hoffmann wrote: robin schrieb: You need to click the "TeX" button and type in the LaTeX code for the character you want. In this case, it's \textregistered Some other useful ones are \textcopyright (the C in a circle) \texttrademark (the TM sign) You can get a complete list of LaTeX sym

Re: Special Characters

2004-04-09 Thread Ansgar Hoffmann
robin schrieb: You need to click the "TeX" button and type in the LaTeX code for the character you want. In this case, it's \textregistered Some other useful ones are \textcopyright (the C in a circle) \texttrademark (the TM sign) You can get a complete list of LaTeX symbols by downloading the

Re: Special Characters

2004-04-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:02:19AM -0400, robin wrote: > >This might be a misunderstanding... One way to do it is to write > > > > '\usepackage{textcomp}' > > This isn't necessary in LyX, at least not in the latest version. Ah... interesting. I wonder what magic figures out that the textcomp pa

Re: Special Characters

2004-04-06 Thread robin
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:44:30PM +0200, Ansgar Hoffmann wrote: I understand that I have to do it the same way I would in an ordindary text editor, say Kate, since I'm using KDE. This might be a misunderstanding... One way to do it is to write '\usepackage{textcomp}' Th

Re: Special Characters

2004-04-06 Thread robin
Ansgar Hoffmann wrote: Hi Guys, my name is Ansgar, I'm new to this list and I'm afraid to the topic as well (have already typed a couple of pages, though), so I got a question that might be a newbie-issue or slightly off topic, but anyway: I want to include what I call special charact

Re: Special Characters

2004-04-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:44:30PM +0200, Ansgar Hoffmann wrote: > I understand that I have to do it the same way I would in an ordindary > text editor, say Kate, since I'm using KDE. This might be a misunderstanding... One way to do it is to write '\usepackage{textcomp}' in the document prea

Special Characters

2004-04-06 Thread Ansgar Hoffmann
Hi Guys, my name is Ansgar, I'm new to this list and I'm afraid to the topic as well (have already typed a couple of pages, though), so I got a question that might be a newbie-issue or slightly off topic, but anyway: I want to include what I call special characters (don't know t

Re: How do I get special characters to display in my Lyx window?

2001-10-23 Thread Dekel Tsur
looks great. So I guess that > the necessary fonts are installed on my system (Mandrake 8.0). > > How can I get the special font to appear in my lyx window? Other > special characters like You can't. However, the next version of lyx (1.2.0) will show all latex+amsmath symbols on screen.

How do I get special characters to display in my Lyx window?

2001-10-18 Thread msh
). How can I get the special font to appear in my lyx window? Other special characters like \in appear in the lyx window just fine. I've read the FAQ and documentation and not been able to find the answer.

Re: Special Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Philipp Lehman
ementation in use.] Well, I was simply referring to the fact that Lyx doesn't offer any menus entries for inserting all availble special characters. You're right that keyboard mapping is very flexible under UNIX, but even if you're running your system in UTF-8 mode, Latex is stil

Re: Special Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Ronald Florence
Philipp Lehman writes: > I cannot find reference to being able to insert special characters (other >than an elipses and a few others). Specifically, I want the copyright >(circled c), registered (circled R), trademark and service mark symbols. I'm >sure these are readi

Re: Special Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Christopher M. Jones wrote: > In tex (red) type \copyright > > Lots of special symbols are available from standard TeX commands. Have a look > at > > Help on LaTeX commands: http://www.astro.ku.dk/help/LaTeX/ltx-2.html > > Herbert Voss's tips and tricks site: www.educat.hu-be

Re: Special Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot find reference to being able to insert special characters (other >than an elipses and a few others). Specifically, I want the copyright >(circled c), registered (circled R), trademark and service mark sym

Re: Special Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Christopher M. Jones
ully all of them for the answer -- and I've looked through the > archives, but I cannot find the answers to a few questions I have. For > simplicity's sake, I'll do them one at a time. > > I cannot find reference to being able to insert special characters (other > than

Special Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
ons I have. For simplicity's sake, I'll do them one at a time. I cannot find reference to being able to insert special characters (other than an elipses and a few others). Specifically, I want the copyright (circled c), registered (circled R), trademark and service mark symbols. I

Re: unavailable symbols/special characters?

2001-09-19 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote: > me "\(\Box\)" in the latex window. Inserting this into the appropriate > location does nothing but error out because it requires a number, a number If I insert that into LyX document, LyX (or LaTeX) says my to use Layout/Document/Extra/Use AMSmath

Re: unavailable symbols/special characters?

2001-09-19 Thread Allan Rae
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote: > Hmpf...I tried the dings you mention, they are not the correct ones. The box > and diamond I seek are in the "Standard" list. There is an open/unfilled box > and diamond. Selecting the box doesn't give a proper ding number, it gives > me "\(\Box\)"

Re: unavailable symbols/special characters?

2001-09-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
Hmpf...I tried the dings you mention, they are not the correct ones. The box and diamond I seek are in the "Standard" list. There is an open/unfilled box and diamond. Selecting the box doesn't give a proper ding number, it gives me "\(\Box\)" in the latex window. Inserting this into the app

Re: unavailable symbols/special characters?

2001-09-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
Thank you for the info! I'll give it a shot - I am also looking for a possible replacement shape for the oval - perhaps an open 5-point-star (unfilled)? Is there such a beast? I am running out of shapes (open circle, box, diamond, triangle...) On Tuesday 18 September 2001 08:13 pm, you wrot

Re: unavailable symbols/special characters?

2001-09-18 Thread Allan Rae
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I NEED to be able to place a box symbol AND a box rotated 1/4 (a diamond) and > a vertical oval. I can only find a box and diamond symbol in the Document > Layout window under bullets. I don't want bullets, I want the characters in > my text. These

unavailable symbols/special characters?

2001-09-18 Thread Praedor Tempus
I NEED to be able to place a box symbol AND a box rotated 1/4 (a diamond) and a vertical oval. I can only find a box and diamond symbol in the Document Layout window under bullets. I don't want bullets, I want the characters in my text. These symbols are not available as a special math chara

Re: special characters

2001-06-30 Thread mobo
On 20-Jun-2001 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "morten" == morten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > morten> I've run into trouble I'm danish meaning that my keyboard > morten> include øæå, but it so happens that I am in france and have to > morten> write in french from time to time. French

Re: special characters

2001-06-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "morten" == morten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: morten> I've run into trouble I'm danish meaning that my keyboard morten> include øæå, but it so happens that I am in france and have to morten> write in french from time to time. French people use ´`^ etc morten> and that works fine. But

Re: special characters

2001-06-12 Thread Pio B.
> >I've run into trouble >I'm danish meaning that my keyboard include øæå, but it so happens that I >am in >france and have to write in french from time to time. French people use ´`^ >etc >and that works fine. But they also have the c 'cedille' - it the c with the >thing bellow it. It s

Re: special characters

2001-06-12 Thread Ronald Florence
morten wrote: > I can handle all kind of appostrophes under lyx, but here I'm the > dark. I was looking for a table including special characters but I > didn't find it. http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/EXPORT/www/ISO-8859-1-Encoding.html is a table which gives the ch

Re: special characters

2001-06-12 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, morten wrote: > looking for a table including special characters but I didn't find it. Look LyX user's manual section 6.5.3: character tables

Re: special characters

2001-06-12 Thread Peter Suetterlin
lle' - it the c with the thing bellow it. > I can handle all kind of appostrophes under lyx, but here I'm the > dark. I was looking for a table including special characters but I > didn't find it. I'm not quite sure what you are looking for. I suppose a way to type those

Re: special characters

2001-06-12 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
7;cedille' - it the c with the | thing bellow it. | | I can handle all kind of appostrophes under lyx, but here I'm the dark. I was | looking for a table including special characters but I didn't find it. | | Any suggestions? either set up you keyboard to produce the ccedilla... o

special characters

2001-06-12 Thread morten
t. I can handle all kind of appostrophes under lyx, but here I'm the dark. I was looking for a table including special characters but I didn't find it. Any suggestions? morten -- -- E-Mail: morten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12-Jun-2001 Time: 15:1

Special characters

2001-02-08 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi, I hope this is not too much off topic for this list, but I'm quite sure some of you will be able to help me. I'm using LyX now for quite a while for my personal documents and are very happy with it. Actually LyX 1.1.6fix1is working fine for my needs. Normally I use a 102 standard keyboard w

Re: Lyx and german special characters

2000-03-13 Thread Faucheux Olivier
"Braun, Stefanie {~Mannheim}" wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm working since four weeks with lyx. In this time I have not found out, > how to get easily a german "ß" in the postscript. The only way it works, is > to write \ss\ in Latex-style. But this is not very comfortable. A solution is to have a « co

Re: Lyx and german special characters

2000-03-13 Thread Stephan E. Schlierf
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Braun, Stefanie {~Mannheim} wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working since four weeks with lyx. In this time I have not found out, > how to get easily a german "ß" in the postscript. The only way it works, is > to write \ss\ in Latex-style. But this is not very comfortable. > Hi, ju

Re: Lyx and german special characters

2000-03-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
> I'm working since four weeks with lyx. In this time I have not found = > out, > how to get easily a german "=DF" in the postscript. The only way it = > works, is > to write \ss\ in Latex-style. But this is not very comfortable.=20 Have you tried to set Layout->Document->Language to 'German' and

Lyx and german special characters

2000-03-13 Thread Braun, Stefanie {~Mannheim}
Hi, I'm working since four weeks with lyx. In this time I have not found out, how to get easily a german "ß" in the postscript. The only way it works, is to write \ss\ in Latex-style. But this is not very comfortable.

RE: special characters and numbering pages

2000-01-04 Thread Juergen Vigna
t) or in the LaTeX-Preamble will set the number of the first page to 17. > 2. On the Reference Manual, 6.4.3., how can I insert any of the special > characters in a document --say, the copyright notice? (it says "without using > too many modifier keys", but I've been trying all I c

Re: special characters and numbering pages

2000-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
>>>>> "Ramon" == Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ramon> 2. On the Reference Manual, 6.4.3., how can I insert any of the Ramon> special characters in a document --say, the copyright notice? Ramon> (it says "without using too many modi

RE: special characters and numbering pages

2000-01-04 Thread Alexander Wollmann
On 03-Jan-00 Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > Dear All, > > I am recent convert to Lyx (amazing program!); I have two questions: > 1. Can I number a document starting at some arbitrary page number (say, 23)? > How? insert \setcounter{page}{number that you want} marked as TeX into the document. Gr

special characters and numbering pages

2000-01-03 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Dear All, I am recent convert to Lyx (amazing program!); I have two questions: 1. Can I number a document starting at some arbitrary page number (say, 23)? How? 2. On the Reference Manual, 6.4.3., how can I insert any of the special characters in a document --say, the copyright notice? (it

Re: Using German special characters

1999-12-09 Thread Reinhard Borek
Do you have choose in Layout/Document Layout/Encoding: latin1 ? at Thu, 09 Dec 1999 Christian Schmitt wrote: > Hi! > > I have a problem using the character "sharp s" (I don't know the exact > word for this character). It is displayed correctly in Lyx, but it seems > that LaTeX doesn'n understand

Re: Using German special characters

1999-12-09 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Christian" == Christian Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes: Christian> Hi! I have a problem using the character "sharp s" (I don't Christian> know the exact word for this character). It is displayed Christian> correctly in Lyx, but it seems that LaTeX doesn'n Christian> understand this c

Using German special characters

1999-12-09 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi! I have a problem using the character "sharp s" (I don't know the exact word for this character). It is displayed correctly in Lyx, but it seems that LaTeX doesn'n understand this character. Instead it generates two capital S characters. Is there a way to configure Lyx so that it replaces this

Re: special characters

1999-08-24 Thread Peter Suetterlin
Ulrich Luttner wrote: > I'm trying to write special characters like an upside-down "?" and "!" > in LyX. > I mean just the spanish "¿" and "¡". > > If I just type it in like above the output is different. If you use those special chara

special characters

1999-08-24 Thread Ulrich Luttner
I'm trying to write special characters like an upside-down "?" and "!" in LyX. I mean just the spanish "¿" and "¡". If I just type it in like above the output is different. Any help is appreciated. Ciao, Ulrich