On 03/21/2018 01:48 PM, mike wrote: > On 21/03/2018 00:50, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> On 03/20/2018 06:23 PM, mike wrote: >>> >>> Hello >>> >>> So I've read "Using LyX to Display Phonetic Characters (IPA)" >>> (https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX#toc4) specifically about the >>> different ways of entering glyphs, etc. with the IPA inset but what >>> still isn't clear to me is how I enter a code point like 0x0298 >>> directly using the IPA inset (bilabial click that appears second on >>> the left on the main IPA toolbar). Is there a way to do this? Also >>> is there a way to enter more than one at the same time in the same >>> inset? >> >> Not with unicode-insert. I suppose we should fix that and allow >> multiple characters, as will self-insert. If you file a bug report >> about that, I expect it can be fixed quite quickly. >> >> But note that you can do things like: >> self-insert ຄໆໆ >> where the Unicode characters are just given explicity. >> >> Riki >> > Hi Riki > > I suppose I'm just thick but how do you the equivalent of "self-insert > 0x0298" in the command buffer? All that happens in an inset or > outside of one is that the text string "0x0298" gets inserted. I > didn't think it appropriate to ask about this in Ticket #11084 > <https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11084>. >
The self-insert LFUN enters exactly what you give it, whereas unicode-insert accepts codepoints. The reason to have both has to do with file encodings, etc. Riki
