I was testing today the SVN version of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.5.7. Due to a change in the way the double quotation mark (“) is handled, adding it to Hebrew text resulted in the following LaTeX error:
LaTeX Error: Command \textquotedbl unavailable in encoding HE8
This could be solved by adding the following line to your LaTeX preamble:
\let\textquotedbl="This line will define the \textquotedb to be the double quotation mark, and the document will compile look the same as it looked in older versions of LyX.
Thanks, this really helped me. 🙂
Thanks!
I published this post as a bug in LyX’s bugzilla
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5571
Ronen: It’s a good idea, I hope they will fix it.
I wasn’t sure if I should report it or not, as LyX produces correct LaTeX code, and I was more concerned with the other bug I found that day (amsmath was automatically added, ignoring the user settings, when \iint was in the document).
The bug is already been fixed in the current SVN version 🙂
Anyway – Guy – Thanks for the work-around.
I use lyx+xetex for supporting out native(Chinese) language, and meet this error, thanks a lot for you solution!
well thanks! this bug is killing me all night long!
Thanks! This came up for me because my coathor still uses swp.
Thank you so much!