John Pye wrote:
Under Ubuntu, one can use the Keyboard preferences to set up a 'Compose' key (I chose 'right ALT'). Once that is done, I can open a text editor (gedit) and get all the accented characters é and ô and ñ etc very nicely. I can even get the degree symbol using the sequence of keys (pressed and released in sequence): right-alt ^ 0. Like so: ° But when I move over to LyX, the accented character come out correctly, but the degree symbol does not appear. Nothing appears when I use the same key sequence as above. I can copy the degree symbol and paste into LyX using Paste External Selection As Paragraphs, but I cannot generate the character directly in LyX.
Try running LyX with "lyx -dbg key" and see what debug output you get when you try to insert the degree symbol using your compose key.
When you paste the degree symbol into a document, does it appear correctly in DVI and PDF output?
-- Michael Wojcik
