>> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
>>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Senior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>> writes:
Richard> If I enter a GBP (UK Pounds Sterling) symbol into a LyX
Richard> document, it displays correctly on the screen but not in
Richard> DVI or PS output. If I export the LyX document as LaTeX, I
Richard> see the following line.
Richard> \pounds{}
Richard> I believe this needs to be surrounded by $ ... $ to display
Richard> correctly:
Richard> $\pounds{}$
Richard> There is a workaround for the problem in LyX by entering
Richard> the $ symbols in TeX mode but it is awkward and looks ugly
Richard> in the source document.
Richard> The problem exists in v0.12.0 and 1.0.0.
JL> Hello,
JL> What version of LaTeX are you using? Nowadays, the pounds macro
JL> works in both math mode and text mode. I did not see any recent
JL> changes in this respect in LaTeX...
Perhaps you need to set "latin1" in Layout->Document
Lgb
