Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > But philosophers like myself occasionally use Greek letters (because > > we quote ancient Greek) in otherwise English texts, and it would be > > nice to be able to cut-and-paste these into LyX. So don't use this as > > a reason not to include Greek characters! > > But you don't expect to end in mathed when citing Aristotle, do you? I > agree that we should support this (as well as cyrillic), but it's not > really easy. We need to load babel and use the \textgreek macro (which > switches the encoding, but not the language).
BTW setting the language to Greek for those parts (in the character dialog) works. Jürgen