On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Fred" == Fred Hucht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Fred> Hi LyXers, I installed the new teTeX 1.0 today. Now when I
> Fred> create an empty document using input encoding Latin1 and enter
> Fred> "1°" (1 degree), I get the LaTeX output
>
> Fred> 0:ibm:fred> latex newfile This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C
> Fred> 7.3.1) (newfile.tex LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1 Babel
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the version of latex.ltx/latex.fmt.
> Fred> <v3.6x> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
> Fred> ngerman, n ohyphenation, loaded.
> Fred> (/apps/teTeX-1.0/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document
> Fred> Class: article 1999/01/07 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the version of article.cls.
> Why are the dates different???
See above...
> Fred> and I get no warning. Where is the problem? Why is ° surrounded
> Fred> by ensuremath?
>
> At some time degree was only valid in math mode. It seems to be still
> true in my latex version (1997/06/01). Could you first make sure why
> the dates of your various elements differ?
I think lyx correctly translates ° into \textdegree, but incorrectly
surrounds it by \ensuremath{}. Is this also done with other symbols?
My older latex version of 1996/12/01 (article.cls was from 1996/10/31
in our old version) also gives no errors...
Fred
Fred Hucht, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Duisburg, Germany
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE/
"Der Koerper der algebraischen Zahlen ist kein algebraischer Zahlkoerper"
(E. Landau, Zahlentheorie (1927), Satz 718)
