Hello, I would like to give a short introduction on myself and why I joined this mailing list about a week ago (only lurking so far).
My name is Tom Schlangen and I am from Germany. My hobby is audio amplifiers using old electron valve technology, and some weeks ago I started writing a book about this theme, aimed at other valve audio DIYers. This book will contain a lot of formulae and schematics, and for reasons not necessary to explain here ;-) I am using LyX to do so. I would like to thank all developers of LyX for making it available to us mere users in the first place. I am using LyX version 1.4.3-5, installed on two machines, one being a Linux box (Debian), the other using a W2k environment. The W2k environment is unavoidable for some reasons I do not want to bother you with. During the last weeks, I explored the LyX environment, including some secondary literature pointed at by the LyX Wiki site, mainly dealing with graphics file conversions, and so on. Still, some questions remain, and I am sure some more will come up in the future, possibly not being covered by the excellent help files/tutorials yet. I hope my questions will not be too stupid in your eyes. To start, I have two somewhat related questions: 1) I need to use Greek letters (for example capital Omega for Ohm) outside formulae, within plain text. Of course I can use the "math pad" to insert them, but looking at the generated code, it reads: \begin_inset Formula $\Omega$ \end_inset so I suspect I am doing something wrong, since I actually do not want a formula there (containing a single Greek character) but only a single Greek character. What is the correct way to do so? 2) Using Edit / Find & Replace (or the Ctrl-F shortcut) will bring up a box where you can enter what you want to find and/or replace. How to enter Greek characters there? Thank you very much, Tom --
