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by parad
Sun Aug 21, 2011 8:30 pm
Forum: LyX
Topic: Unicode characters
Replies: 6
Views: 5344

Unicode characters

The Computer Modern fonts don't cover the complete Unicode range, and I don't think that glyph is covered at all by the inputenc package.

From what I can tell, it's just a straight line, though, right? Can't you approximate it with a \rule command, something like \rule[0.5ex]{1em}{2pt}?

Wow ...
by parad
Thu Aug 18, 2011 2:43 am
Forum: LyX
Topic: Unicode characters
Replies: 6
Views: 5344

Re: Unicode characters

Anyone can help me?

I only want to insert some special characters in the middle of the text.
by parad
Sun Aug 14, 2011 9:42 pm
Forum: LyX
Topic: Unicode characters
Replies: 6
Views: 5344

Unicode characters

Hi Parad,

welcome to the board!
For inserting UTF-8 characters, you could use the inputenc package. Load it by inserting this line into your LyX document preamble:

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

Stefan

I tried utf8 inputenc on a MWE and the character 0x2501 gives me the next error:

Can not ...
by parad
Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:57 pm
Forum: LyX
Topic: Unicode characters
Replies: 6
Views: 5344

Unicode characters

Hi Parad,

welcome to the board!
For inserting UTF-8 characters, you could use the inputenc package. Load it by inserting this line into your LyX document preamble:

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

Stefan

Hi Stefan!

Thanks for your reply.

I've tried inputenc, but my problem is abouta LaTeX I ...
by parad
Sun Aug 14, 2011 7:19 pm
Forum: LyX
Topic: Unicode characters
Replies: 6
Views: 5344

Unicode characters

I want to insert some unicode characters like black square or ━ but after trying it for several hours i can't get anything more than errors.

I've tried XeTeX but I prefer keep my font (Computer Modern I guess, the LyX predefined).

Is there a workaround to insert only an unicode character, and keep ...