Re: Representing mu in bibliography source file

2024-03-06 Thread Rich Shepard

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, Herbert Voss wrote:


It should be an upright mu for a unit


Herbert,

Of course. It's not in a mathematical expression.

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Re: Representing mu in bibliography source file

2024-03-06 Thread Herbert Voss


Rich Shepard schrieb:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, Herbert Voss wrote:
>
>>> You can put "$\mu$g" in a BibTeX entry and it should display properly
>>> in
>>> the document.
>>
>> \textmu{}g for an upright µ
>
> Herbert,
>
> That's a better solution for upright text.

 see
https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811/nist-guide-si-chapter-6-rules-and-style-conventions-printing-and-using
6.2.3

It should be an upright mu for a unit

Herbert



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> Thank you,
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> Rich
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Re: Representing mu in bibliography source file

2024-03-06 Thread Herbert Voss


Rich Shepard schrieb:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, Herbert Voss wrote:
>
>>> You can put "$\mu$g" in a BibTeX entry and it should display properly
>>> in
>>> the document.
>>
>> \textmu{}g for an upright µ
>
> Herbert,
>
> That's a better solution for upright text.

 see
https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811/nist-guide-si-chapter-6-rules-and-style-conventions-printing-and-using
6.2.3

It should be an upright mu for a unit

Herbert



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> Thank you,
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> Rich
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Re: Representing mu in bibliography source file

2024-03-06 Thread Rich Shepard

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, Herbert Voss wrote:

You can put "$\mu$g" in a BibTeX entry and it should display properly in 
the document.


\textmu{}g for an upright µ


Herbert,

That's a better solution for upright text.

Thank you,

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Re: Representing mu in bibliography source file

2024-03-06 Thread Herbert Voss



Am 06.03.24 um 17:47 schrieb Paul Rubin:



On 3/6/24 10:50, Rich Shepard wrote:
I use JabRef for my bibliography database; it's in ASCII text file 
format. Some
abstracts report concentrations in micrograms and have been entered 
as 'ug.'

How can I enter the mu symbol so it displays properly in LyX documents?

Looking in /usr/share/X11/en_US.UTF-8/Compose I see multikey solutions;
i.e.,
      : "µ"    mu # MICRO SIGN
      : "µ"    mu # MICRO SIGN
      : "µ"    mu # MICRO SIGN
but while these work in text files, they're not the same as \mu in 
LaTeX.


Help's appreciated.

Regards,

Rich
You can put "$\mu$g" in a BibTeX entry and it should display properly 
in the document.


\textmu{}g for an upright µ

Herbert
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Re: Representing mu in bibliography source file

2024-03-06 Thread Rich Shepard

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, Paul Rubin wrote:


You can put "$\mu$g" in a BibTeX entry and it should display properly in
the document.


Paul,

I wondered about that. Thanks for the suggestion.

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Re: Representing mu in bibliography source file

2024-03-06 Thread Paul Rubin



On 3/6/24 10:50, Rich Shepard wrote:
I use JabRef for my bibliography database; it's in ASCII text file 
format. Some
abstracts report concentrations in micrograms and have been entered as 
'ug.'

How can I enter the mu symbol so it displays properly in LyX documents?

Looking in /usr/share/X11/en_US.UTF-8/Compose I see multikey solutions;
i.e.,
      : "µ"    mu # MICRO SIGN
      : "µ"    mu # MICRO SIGN
      : "µ"    mu # MICRO SIGN
but while these work in text files, they're not the same as \mu in LaTeX.

Help's appreciated.

Regards,

Rich
You can put "$\mu$g" in a BibTeX entry and it should display properly in 
the document.


Paul

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