On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Bruce Pourciau <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Dec 12, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
>
> On 2011-12-12, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
>>
>>> OK, I'm sure this must be a silly question, but why, when I enter in
>>> ERT \ˆ{e}, to get a circumflex over the e, does my document stop being
>>> viewable?
>>>
>>
>> If the character you used in LyX is the same as here:
>>
>> Character 'ˆ' (710, 0x2C6)
>> 02C6 MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
>>
>> it is because it is not the ASCII-circumflex
>>
>> Character '^' (94, 0x5E)
>> 005E CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
>>
>> and hence an unknown command.
>>
>> Günter
>>
>>
>>
> Thank you, Günter. That's the problem. I formed the circumflex by doing
> option-i on a Mac keyboard, and this apparently produces character (710,
> 0x2C6), according to
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/**nellisks/tools/char_val.html?**c=ˆ<http://homepage.mac.com/nellisks/tools/char_val.html?c=%CB%86>
>
> Bruce
Out of curiosity, does compiling with LuaTeX or XeTeX (instead of pdflatex)
allow you to use the other circumflex?
Xu
