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