On Thursday 26 July 2007 15:36:32 Lyx user wrote:
> Now that Unicode is supported and everyone is looking towards version 1.6,
> I would like to suggest full support for XeTeX. It is currently the most
> comprehensive way to put Unicode characters in a TeX document. Another
> great feature is direct access to TrueType and OpenType fonts.
>
> LyX would have to check if XeTeX is available, and if it is, modify the
> font selection dialog to allow access to additional fonts. The appropriate
> commands would then be included in the preamble. It would also be nice to
> have XeTeX font selection commands (throught the fontspec package)
> available from the paragraph or character style dialogs.
>
> The major limitation of XeTeX right now is poor math support, but it is
> possible (with the "nomath" option) to have equations passed to plain
> TeX/LaTeX with the standard fonts, while having the XeTeX features
> available in text mode.
>
> You can see some of the capabilities of the program here:
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.pdf

I have placed this request under the wiki page:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UsersRequests

-- 
José Abílio

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