Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

Hi Ignacio You are right -- thanks! (The sequence Compose o o worked for me; the other one didn't -- I don't have an AltGr key). But any thoughts on why this compose sequence is different from that required in GNOME programs like gnome-terminal and gedit, etc? If I have to learn different compo

RE: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

In Ubuntu GNU/Linux (Gnome Desktop) the degree symbol insert directly by 1. the binding AltGr-S-^-^ (ALtGr Shift and two ^) 2. If the Compose key is OK, with the binding Compose-o-o Regards Ignacio

Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

Helge Hafting wrote: > Are you sure you're getting a degree symbol and not a zero exponent? > Those two are different - degree is a perfect circle while the zero > exponent > is a tiny "0". > > When I type ^0 I get a zero exponent: ⁰ > Typing ALT 0 (in an xterm) gives me the degree: ° > > The degre

Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

Michael Wojcik wrote: John Pye wrote: Setting key to 4128, KeySym is Shift_L isOK is 1 isMod is 1 isModifier true sending IMStart with 0 chars to 0x86031c8 sending IMEnd with 1 chars to 0x86031c8, text= Setting key to 0, ? KeySym is ? isOK is 1 isMod is 0 encoding is iso8859-1 Using codec ISO 88

Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

John Pye wrote: Setting key to 4128, KeySym is Shift_L isOK is 1 isMod is 1 isModifier true sending IMStart with 0 chars to 0x86031c8 sending IMEnd with 1 chars to 0x86031c8, text= Setting key to 0, ? KeySym is ? isOK is 1 isMod is 0 encoding is iso8859-1 Using codec ISO 8859-1 Oof. Can't encode

Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

Hi Michael, I'm still trying to work out what's stopping my degree symbol from showing up.. Michael Wojcik wrote: > You could probably suppress that by filtering the LyX output through > something to strip out the control characters. For example: > > lyx -dbg key 2>&1 | tr -dc '[:print:]\n' > >

Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

John Pye wrote: Thanks for replying. I tried pasting the degree symbol and viewing with pdflatex. All looks fine. I pasted some accented latin-1 letters as well, all worked fine. Well, that's good, anyway. When I ran the debug thing like you said, I got some crazy output. [I've snipped the

Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

Hi Michael Thanks for replying. I tried pasting the degree symbol and viewing with pdflatex. All looks fine. I pasted some accented latin-1 letters as well, all worked fine. When I ran the debug thing like you said, I got some crazy output. The sort of thing I usually see when I've got memory-rel

Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

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 (

Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

Hi John, when i'm looking for Symbols, i use http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf Here you ca find "almost everything" ;-} -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Yours Sincerely Roland Schmitz

degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

Hi all I have been trying to work out how to make the degree symbol appear in Lyx. There was a thread on this recently but it was all about using mathematical equations, whereas I want to just insert the symbol as a regular character. Under Ubuntu, one can use the Keyboard preferences to set up a