Diego Queiroz wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I tried to insert a special character ½, and found it difficult to locate.
>> I
>> use kcharselect (from kde) to find it. It has a search bar. Just type in
>> the
>> term 'half', and it's the first thing shown (on my machine).
>>
>> My suggestion is add a searchbar to the insert special character.
>>
>> BTW, I can use kcharselect to locate a unicode character. But, I don't
>> think it
>> would generally work to just paste in a unicode character to a LaTeX
>> document,
>> correct?
>>
>>
> Usually, you can freely copy/paste some unicode chars to/from LyX (specially
> symbols).
> LyX automatically inserts all necessary packages and converts the char to
> the correspondent LaTeX code.
>
> To check, just try to copy/paste your "½" character to a new LyX document
> and look to the source.
> LyX includes the textcomp package and use the command \textonehalf{}.
>
> Also, a good hint to search for unknown symbols in LaTeX is to use a image
> classificator (like this one http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html).
>
>
Wow!! That classify thing is really, really cool! How did I not notice this
one?
