e diaresis (or umlaut)

[Raphael Clifford]

Is there a lyx way to put two dots over an e (not in maths mode)? My
name has such a character in it :) In latex it is \"{e}.

Cheers,
Raphael

[John Levon]

Post by Raphael Clifford
Is there a lyx way to put two dots over an e (not in maths mode)? My
name has such a character in it :) In latex it is \"{e}.

Just type it directly in...

You may need to set up a compose key in X (search the net for how: you
may need to assign a key to mean "Compose" by using xmodmap)

john

[Angus Leeming]

Post by Raphael Clifford
Is there a lyx way to put two dots over an e (not in maths mode)?
My name has such a character in it :) In latex it is \"{e}.
Cheers,
Raphael

In the minibuffer (the bar at the bottom of the screen) type
accent-umlaut e

You can bind this to a short cut key. Search wiki.lyx.org.

[Raphael Clifford]

Post by Angus Leeming

Post by Raphael Clifford
Is there a lyx way to put two dots over an e (not in maths mode)?
My name has such a character in it :) In latex it is \"{e}.
Cheers,
Raphael

In the minibuffer (the bar at the bottom of the screen) type
accent-umlaut e
You can bind this to a short cut key. Search wiki.lyx.org.

Hi,

Thanks very much for that answer. Sadly my problem seems a little more
complicated. I am using prosper (Weiss layout) and want the character
in the author field of the title page. When I do accent-umlaut e as you
suggest, lyx shows it beautifully. However, the letter is completely
omitted in the postscript version as if it hasn't been typed at all.

I have attached a very simple lyx file to show what I am doing.

Any help is very much appreciated.

Rapha\"{e}l

[Matej Cepl]

When I do accent-umlaut e as you suggest, lyx shows it
beautifully. However, the letter is completely omitted in the
postscript version as if it hasn't been typed at all.

You have to have Edit/Preferences/Outputs/LaTeX/TeX encoding set
to T1 to make it work (and either have cm-super fonts installed
or use Layout/Document/Layout/Font & Size set to "ae" or
"pslatex".

All the best,

Matej

[Raphael Clifford]

Post by Matej Cepl

When I do accent-umlaut e as you suggest, lyx shows it
beautifully. However, the letter is completely omitted in the
postscript version as if it hasn't been typed at all.

You have to have Edit/Preferences/Outputs/LaTeX/TeX encoding set
to T1 to make it work (and either have cm-super fonts installed
or use Layout/Document/Layout/Font & Size set to "ae" or
"pslatex".
All the best,
Matej

Thanks very much! I had the encoding set set to T1 but I would never
have worked out that I had to set Font and Size to ae or pslatex. All
I need to do is to work out how to stop lyx calling dvips with "-t a4"
and I will be happy :)

Cheers,
Raphael

[Matej Cepl]

Post by Raphael Clifford
Thanks very much! I had the encoding set set to T1 but I would
never have worked out that I had to set Font and Size to ae or
pslatex. All I need to do is to work out how to stop lyx
calling dvips with "-t a4" and I will be happy :)

Take a look at Edit/Preferences/Converters -- I'll find a lot of
inspiration there. :-)

Matej

[Raphael Clifford]

Post by Matej Cepl

Post by Raphael Clifford
Thanks very much! I had the encoding set set to T1 but I would
never have worked out that I had to set Font and Size to ae or
pslatex. All I need to do is to work out how to stop lyx
calling dvips with "-t a4" and I will be happy :)

Take a look at Edit/Preferences/Converters -- I'll find a lot of
inspiration there. :-)
Matej

Hi,

I have been looking there but the entry for DVI->Postscript only says
dvips -o $$o $$i

It isn't clear to me where -t a4 is added. I can only assume that this
is some internal logic in lyx as the page size is set to a4?

Cheers,
Raphael

[Matej Cepl]

Post by Raphael Clifford
I have been looking there but the entry for DVI->Postscript only says
dvips -o $$o $$i
It isn't clear to me where -t a4 is added. I can only assume that this
is some internal logic in lyx as the page size is set to a4?

Try texconfig (as root), what paper is set for dvips?
Alternatively check settings for your documents in LyX
(Layout/Paper?,Page?).

Matej