Daniel said on Thu, 16 Mar 2023 08:18:33 +0100
>Thanks, awesome! > >Maybe a solution would be if LyX loads fonts later in general? Or >would that lead to other problems? Of course the later font load might screw up other things, and would certainly need to be done before things start getting written to the dvi or pdf. The older I get, the more I wonder if LaTeX is really better than Plain TeX. LaTeX has all sorts of conflicting packages, its Document Classes are never exactly what I want, and in fact the two times I started a book with anything but the Book Document Class (which I was forced to modify heavily every time to get what I needed), all sorts of conflicts popped up. It's true that LaTeX has zillions of packages that make hard things easy, but those packages also require more layers of abstraction and often cause conflicts. Like LaTeX, Plain TeX can be used both as a markup language and a Turing Complete language. Markup is easier with Plain TeX, and Plain TeX is much more easily exported from styles-based XML, making it a great component for a write once/deploy everywhere tool. The hairiest thing I ever did in LaTeX was in my book "The Key to Everyday Excellence", a teaching-fiction book in which the plot skipped around in time so much that I set up LaTeX to write, in the page header, the date on which the current page was taking place. Ha, little did I know that ten years later it would be a hip thing to confuse the reader or viewer as to whether something was current or back-story, and if the latter, when. Anyway, when I learn more Plain TeX, I'll be trying the date-in-header trick in Plain TeX too. I'm not suggesting LyX switch to outputting Plain TeX. It's about 25 years too late for a decision like that. I'm just saying it doesn't surprise me that there's a question of changing when fonts are defined. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
