On 2009-12-02, Brian Bosse wrote:
> You mentioned that I could wait for 1.6.5 to come out, but I would
> rather not.
> You also mentioned to copy the file =91unicodesymbols=92
> from the system from the system LYXDIR to my personal lyx-dir and apply
> a patch. I am on a Windows XP system, and f
Hello Günter,
I am still no sure how to respond in this list. Every time I click the
Reply Via Email button I get Not Found - The document you were looking
for was not found. Oh well. :-( Please forgive my lack of etiquette. You
mentioned that I could wait for 1.6.5 to come out, but I w
On 2009-12-01, Brian Bosse wrote:
> Here is one example. When I paste an copy the Greek Unicode text from =
> the =E2=80=9CAncient Greek=E2=80=9D entry on Wikipedia, the grave =
> accents and the circumflex simply show up as a box in LyX
The accents or characters with accents?
You need a scree
Hello Günter,
Thank you for your response. I kept getting an error trying to respond through
the list. So, I am trying it this way. You asked…
>Strange: It should work out of the box if you insert the proper
>Unicode chars. (Be more specific about what does not work if you need
>help.)
On 2009-11-28, Brian Bosse wrote:
> I am brand new to LyX, and am trying to figure out how to add Greek text to
> my documents (with proper accents, etc...).
Search for Greek at http://wiki.lyx.org
> My papers are written in English
> but I often use Biblical Greek. Even though I have spent man
Hello Everyone,
I am brand new to LyX, and am trying to figure out how to add Greek text to
my documents (with proper accents, etc...). My papers are written in English
but I often use Biblical Greek. Even though I have spent many hours trying
to figure this out, I am no closer than when I began.I
On 13.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 13 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> > On 12.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> In answer to your previous comments: I tried setting the keyboard to
> Greek, but it doesn't do anything. Looking at the greek.kmap file I see
> that it doesn't really contain any rede
> On 6/8/08, Pavel Sanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > what about to setup some wiki page sumarizing greek+lyx issues?
> >
> I planned to do this in some near future, but prefered to wait for
> some (more) feedback from the list and give myself some more
> search-time, before doing so.
i setup th
On 13.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > * Hyphenation and babel generated strings (like "Chapter" or "Table of
> > Contents") depend on the setting of "greek" vs. "polutonikogreek".
> >
> > Just greek language is *not* enough!
> i have just tried it and don't see what you mean. i took
> polutoni
> It is not just the accents but also hyphenation patterns etc.
>
> The distinction is similar to german and ngerman (i.e. old and new
> spelling), only that the reform in Greece was 20 years earlier).
>
> OTOH, it can be a big timesave if you can input "strange" characters as a
> combination of
On 13 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> On 12.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > Yes, I do have dejavu (ttf-dejavu) but I don't know how to tell lyx to
> > use it - it doesn't appear as a choice. But I'm not sure that what I am
> > trying to do is possible in Lyx (see my reply to Gunter below).
>
> 1
On 12.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Yes, I do have dejavu (ttf-dejavu) but I don't know how to tell lyx to
> use it - it doesn't appear as a choice. But I'm not sure that what I am
> trying to do is possible in Lyx (see my reply to Gunter below).
1. Does DejaVu appear as a choice in other appl
> Van: G. Milde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12.06.08, Ad Meskens wrote:
> Unfortunately, this does not work. The hyphenation does not materialize.
Could you elaborate a bit?
> I was looking for "Greek (polytonic)" --> polutonikogreek which is not
> present (unfortunately) but it seems to w
On 12.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 12 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> A bit of background to all this: my wife is Greek and needs to type
> Greek occasionally; she is also a purist about accents etc. (Byzantine
> enthusiast). She is not happy seeing non-Greek characters on screen.
In this cas
Onderwerp: Re: greek fonts
On 6/8/08, Ad Meskens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is however a problem when you want to write ancient Greek with
hyphens
> etc; The betababel package and writing bcode in ERT works wonderfully.
> However handling Dutch seems to be suppressed.
>
>
Unfortunately, this does not work. The hyphenation does not materialize.
Ad
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: G. Milde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Verzonden: maandag 9 juni 2008 8:58
Aan: Ad Meskens
Onderwerp: Re: greek fonts
On 8.06.08, Ad Meskens wrote:
> There is however a problem w
On 12 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
>
> This is not about conversion but display:
>
> * If you paste polytonic Greek text from e.g.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_diacritics, this should show up in
> greek letters with diacritics at the correct place.
>
> * If you input latin letters and
On 12 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > On 12 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > >
> > > i would like to summarize the my understanding of the problems i
> > > encountered,
> > > please comment on:
> > >
> > > 1. Screen painting.
> > > after installing unicode fonts for X displaying ancient greek l
On 12.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 12 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> >
> > i would like to summarize the my understanding of the problems i
> > encountered, please comment on:
> >
> > 1. Screen painting.
> > after installing unicode fonts for X displaying ancient greek letters
> > works i
On 12.06.08, Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote:
> On some keyboard layouts ~ is a dead key by default (danish for instance).
> I wonder why tilde is a dead key on danish keyboards, we don't have any
> chars in our alphabet that use a tilde accent.
The same holds for German.
> I guess someone onc
However, many fonts exist parallel in a "unicode encoding" (as
OpenType, postscript or TrueType fonts) and as a set of virtual LaTeX
fonts. Examples are Latin Modern, Bera/Arev/DejaVu, Kerkis, or the
TeX-Gyre fonts.
Typesetting Greek with utf8x and (pdf)latex depends on the av
> On 12 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> >
> > i would like to summarize the my understanding of the problems i
> > encountered,
> > please comment on:
> >
> > 1. Screen painting.
> > after installing unicode fonts for X displaying ancient greek letters works
> > in lyx
> > without problems.
> >
On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> > On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> >
> > > Looks like I shall have to give up trying to write Greek in Lyx and
> > > Latex for the time being, unless someone fixes it.
> > Could you try with the two attached latex fil
On 12 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
>
> i would like to summarize the my understanding of the problems i encountered,
> please comment on:
>
> 1. Screen painting.
> after installing unicode fonts for X displaying ancient greek letters works
> in lyx
> without problems.
>
[snip]
Not here. I've
> But missing input encodings are not marked (are they?) -- this is what I
> call inconsistency.
yes :)
p
On 11.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > But this is inconsistent with handling of other extensions.
> > Editing in LyX works even without any tex distribution, still
> > reconfigure checks availability of fonts, classes and packages --
> > but not inputenc nor ucs.
> which is a different story then pr
Pavel Sanda skrev:
(or even hard code ~ as a dead key).
On some keyboard layouts ~ is a dead key by default (danish for instance).
My guess is that people, who wish to write greek, use such a keyboard
layout (or changes to one).
I wonder why tilde is a dead key on danish keyboards, we don
> > > Question to the developers: Would it be possible to pass the tilde '~'
> > > to LaTeX as-is if the language is set to polutonikogreek?
>
> > please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this is wrong direction.
> > how will you determine nonbreak. space vs tilde accent then?
>
> The same way
On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the
> > letter, not on top of it.
>
> > But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex,
> > not Lyx, because the same thing is now ha
On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the
> letter, not on top of it.
> But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex,
> not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in native Latex as
> well.
Strange.
On 11.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > Question to the developers: Would it be possible to pass the tilde '~'
> > to LaTeX as-is if the language is set to polutonikogreek?
> please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this is wrong direction.
> how will you determine nonbreak. space vs tilde accent
> On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the
> letter, not on top of it.
>
> But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex,
> not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in native Latex as
> well.
>
> Looks li
On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, lyx currently only supports modern Greek, but has no
> support for polytonic Greek (babel option polutonikogreek).
>
> However, this can be easily fixed by adding polutonikogreek to the
> languages file and re-configuring:
>
> --- /usr/share/lyx
> But this is inconsistent with handling of other extensions.
> Editing in LyX works even without any tex distribution, still
> reconfigure checks availability of fonts, classes and packages --
> but not inputenc nor ucs.
which is a different story then prohibit this encoding ;)
pavel
> > is tetex supposed to work with the chosen encoding or do i need texlive?
> > what tex distribution do you use?
>
> utf8x.def is part of the "ucs" package for comprehensive unicode support.
>
> I use the texlive packages from Debian/testing which contain ucs in
> texlive-latex-recommended.
>
> it. When you put "tilde-accent" into the command buffer and then strike the
> desired key,
sorry i meant "accent-tilde"
>
> pavel
> With this fix, your lyx example can be set to use the language "Greek
> (polytonic)".
>
> However, as the tilde acts as a non-breakable space in LaTeX, it is
> escaped by LyX (converted to \asciitilde) and hence the example will only
> work right, if you put the tilde (or the whole text) in an E
On 11.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > > > Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions,
> > > > so this might count as a (minor) LyX bug,
> >
> > > no i dont have this package locally, so its not lyx problem.
> >
> > It is a lyx problem if you can actively set
> > Document>Settin
On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> > On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex
> > > > > > > (tilde) keeps appearing before the letter instead of above
> > > > > > > it.
Unfortunatel
On 11 Jun 2008, Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote:
> Anthony Campbell skrev:
>> On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
>>
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
>> I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde
Anthony Campbell skrev:
On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps
appearing before the letter instead of above it.
In most
On 11 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> > > On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde)
> > > > > > > > keeps
> > > > > > > > appearing before the letter instead of above it.
>
> On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> > On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde)
> > > > > > > keeps
> > > > > > > appearing before the letter instead of above it.
> > > >
> > > > In most fonts, even in the "Stan
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde)
> > > > > > keeps
> > > > > > appearing before the letter instead of above it.
> > >
> > > In most fonts, even in the "Standard glyph list"
> > > Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, so this
> > > might count as a (minor) LyX bug,
>
> > no i dont have this package locally, so its not lyx problem.
>
> It is a lyx problem if you can actively set
> Document>Settings>Language>Encoding to utf8x while the packag
On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> >
> > > now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing.
> >
> > Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui?
> i dont think this is possible.
My mistake. You cannot choose font encod
> On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote:
>
> > now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing.
>
> Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui?
i dont think this is possible. you can only select language encoding,
which was set to utf8x in your previous file. i
On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing.
Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui?
Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, so this
might count as a (minor) LyX bug,
> is tetex supposed
> I copied them from the `gucharmap` character listing application. Many
> editors (but not LyX) have a "special chars" feature where you can select
> any character from a table.
fyi lyx 1.6 should solve this http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16#toc16
pavel
> * For the LyX GUI, I use DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Sans and Inconsolata.
i installed these and it works beatifully on the screen.
now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing.
is tetex supposed to work with the chosen encoding or do i need texlive?
what tex distribution do y
On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Although I have unicode fonts installed they don't show up as a possible
> choice in Lyx. How can you make it see them?
For LyX GUI or as document font?
* The LyX GUI should let you select between all properly installed system
fonts (I use DejaVu).
* S
On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps
> > > > > appearing before the letter instead of above it.
> >
> > In most fonts, even in the "Standard glyph list" of the Unicode
> > consortium and fonts from the Greek F
On 9.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 09 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> > On 9.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> >
> > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps
> > > appearing before the letter instead of above it.
This is normal for capital greek letters. Small le
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> On 9.06.08, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:18:15PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > On Monday 09 June 2008 08:10, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > >
> > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps
> > > > appearing befo
On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> On 9.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > > It works in LyX, if you use the correct unicode char (from the extended
> > > Greek table) out of the box, but not so good with combining chars.
> > >
> > > > Also, there there any way to get the characters to appear in Greek
On 9.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > It works in LyX, if you use the correct unicode char (from the extended
> > Greek table) out of the box, but not so good with combining chars.
> >
> > > Also, there there any way to get the characters to appear in Greek
> > > on-screen (i.e. before converting th
On 9.06.08, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:18:15PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Monday 09 June 2008 08:10, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> >
> > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps
> > > appearing before the letter instead of above it.
In most
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:18:15PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Monday 09 June 2008 08:10, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps
> > appearing before the letter instead of above it.
>
> For ancient Greek, you must use a goose feather
On Monday 09 June 2008 08:10, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps
> appearing before the letter instead of above it.
For ancient Greek, you must use a goose feather on papayrus.
Sorry, I couldn't resist :-)
SteveT
Steve Litt
Recession
On 09 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote:
> On 9.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps
> > appearing before the letter instead of above it.
>
> It works in LyX, if you use the correct unicode char (from the extended
> Greek table) out of
> It works in LyX, if you use the correct unicode char (from the extended
> Greek table) out of the box, but not so good with combining chars.
>
> > Also, there there any way to get the characters to appear in Greek
> > on-screen (i.e. before converting the text to dvi)?
>
> Yes, see attached fil
On 9.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) keeps
> appearing before the letter instead of above it.
It works in LyX, if you use the correct unicode char (from the extended
Greek table) out of the box, but not so good with combining chars
On 08 Jun 2008, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On 6/8/08, Ad Meskens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There is however a problem when you want to write ancient Greek with hyphens
> > etc; The betababel package and writing bcode in ERT works wonderfully.
> > However handling Dutch seems to be suppressed.
>
On 6/8/08, Pavel Sanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what about to setup some wiki page sumarizing greek+lyx issues?
>
I planned to do this in some near future, but prefered to wait for
some (more) feedback from the list and give myself some more
search-time, before doing so.
Regards,
Liviu
> > Does anyone know how to solve this problem???
> >
> There was a recent discussion [1] on this, with no apparent solution.
> This other relevant discussion [2] seems to offer a solution.
>
> Regards,
> Liviu
>
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg63778.html
> [2] http:
On 6/8/08, Ad Meskens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is however a problem when you want to write ancient Greek with hyphens
> etc; The betababel package and writing bcode in ERT works wonderfully.
> However handling Dutch seems to be suppressed.
>
> When you compile your LyX file, even thoug
There is however a problem when you want to write ancient Greek with hyphens
etc; The betababel package and writing bcode in ERT works wonderfully.
However handling Dutch seems to be suppressed.
When you compile your LyX file, even though you have stated your language is
Dutch (or another), the c
Hello Uwe,
On 6/2/08, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > \usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc}
> > \usepackage[greek, english]{babel}
>
> You don't need both, this is handled (and automatically inserted) by LyX.
>
Apparently not that many out there use LyX to write in Greek..
Thank you for th
Liviu Andronic schrieb:
while for the Greek font I use:
\usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc}
> \usepackage[greek, english]{babel}
You don't need both, this is handled (and automatically inserted) by LyX.
regards Uwe
]{babel}
I you write similar documents, how do you select Greek fonts? What is
the font of your choice?
Thank you,
Liviu
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
(Sorry for sending this again - if I did. I am not sure to which
address to
send a question to. Sorry )
Hi,
I'm a new user to LyX. Just installed LyX 1.5.5 on my Windows XP.
Most of the Greek Fonts such as \alpha \beta \gamma etc. come o
On 5/22/08, Erez Yerushalmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Most of the Greek Fonts such as \alpha \beta \gamma etc. come out on screen
> as a red empty box.
> However, viewing the page as PDF gives me the correct fonts.
>
Not sure whether on-topic. If you intend to write in Gr
Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
(Sorry for sending this again - if I did. I am not sure to which address to
send a question to. Sorry )
Hi,
I'm a new user to LyX. Just installed LyX 1.5.5 on my Windows XP.
Most of the Greek Fonts such as \alpha \beta \gamma etc. come out on screen
as a red empt
(Sorry for sending this again - if I did. I am not sure to which address to
send a question to. Sorry )
Hi,
I'm a new user to LyX. Just installed LyX 1.5.5 on my Windows XP.
Most of the Greek Fonts such as \alpha \beta \gamma etc. come out on screen
as a red empty box.
However, viewing the
Uwe Stöhr ha scritto:
> Gisbert, Fernando schrieb:
>
>> Try using the boldmath package.
>
> Don't use this package because it can only bold single characters. LyX
> has built in support for bold: use the commands
>
> \boldsymbol\pi
>
> to get a bold pi. Boldsymbol works also for complete formulas.
Gisbert, Fernando schrieb:
Try using the boldmath package.
Don't use this package because it can only bold single characters. LyX
has built in support for bold: use the commands
\boldsymbol\pi
to get a bold pi. Boldsymbol works also for complete formulas.
regards Uwe
: LyX Users List
Subject: Bold face of greek fonts in math mode
Hello,
I tried all fonts available on the documents settings but $\mathbf{\pi}$
doesn't show any visual difference from $\pi$, in other words, it
doesn't seem to be bold! This happens on DVI, PS and PDF exports too.
Do I h
Hello,
I tried all fonts available on the documents settings but $\mathbf{\pi}$
doesn't show any visual difference from $\pi$, in other words, it
doesn't seem to be bold! This happens on DVI, PS and PDF exports too.
Do I have to choose a different font (I use palatino 12pt)?
Or maybe a particular P
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