Bo Peng wrote:
When I copy some text from word to lyx, a few symbols can not be
handled. It took me quite a while to find them all, and here is what I
add to the unicodesymbols file.
χσΣβμ
0x03c7 "$\\chi$" "" ""
0x03b2 "$\\beta$" "" ""
0x03bc "$\\mu$" "" ""
0x03c0 "$\\pi$" "" ""
0x03b8 "$\\theta$" "" ""
0x03c3 "$\\sigma$" "" ""
0x03a3 "$\\sum$" "" ""
0xf0c4 "$\\otimes$" "" ""
I guess there are many more Greek letters. My question is: why are
they not added before? Is it because of the insertion of $$?
I believe so, yes. The Ancient Greeks were famed for their
mathematical prowess, but it's a bit of a leap to state that all
Athenian bloggers write in math.
There are, of course, Greek packages for LaTeX...
Angus