On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, Paul A Rubin wrote:
Curious. Your setup must be a tad nonstandard.
Paul, Could be ... because I am.
I tested it at my end (using " pdf2") and it worked. In the list of file formats (under preferences) on both my machines, pdf2 is "shorthand" for "PDF (pdflatex)". That's a LyX default, not something I screwed with.
Hmmm-m-m. Under Tools -> Preferences -> File Handling -> File formats for default output formats with TeX fonts PDF (pdflatex), with non-TeX fonts DVI (LuaTeX). The Shortcut text entry widget is empty. I use the T1 TeX font encoding; the default body text typeface is Palatino. Rich
