[Nottingham] symbols in lyx

[Robert Hart]

I don't know anything about lyx, but in latex you would put:

\usepackage{textcomp}

in the preamble (i.e. the bit of the document before the
\begin{document})

and then you can use whatever commands are provided throughout your
document.

Rob

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 13:31 +0100, David Wolfson wrote:
> I'm trying to write this D&^&*d thesis in lyx, and have hit a stumbling 
> block. How do I insert symbols? I can get some standard ones through the 
> math mode (eg '\alpha'), but not things like degrees C. Having googled 
> it, I got textcomp.sty from:
> http://www.texnik.de/symbols/textcomp.phtml
> 
> but have no idea what to do with it. What's an .sty file anyway? Any 
> pointers please?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave
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Robert Hart <enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk>
University of Nottingham