Am 22.11.2015 um 22:59 schrieb Guenter Milde:
My intention was not to separate this. chemical equations are formulas
nevertheless.
They are formulas, but not mathematical ones, so I would rather place
this in "specific manuals > Chemical Formulas".
Is this really necessary? One more file for me to maintain. Yes I am
lazy and keeping the text where it is would help me. But if others vote
for this change too then I'll do it of course.
However, whenever this is not in the way of the primary goal, I would like
to see the manuals also robust and clean
* as good examples for LyX use,
> * as starting point for users trying to experiment with various LyX
settings,
>
> * as a set of sample documents for the export tests
Oh, I spent many hours in creating the 3 files EmbeddedObjects, Math and
the UserGuide to describe so many different features. To be able to do
this in one file with references to each other they all use a lot of
preamble code and they are therefore no god start points.
To play with features one should create a new file and experiment with
the particular feature one likes to play with.
I could also add a note to make this clear.
I am even a bit proud of that one can export these files as PDF and use
this as a nicely typeset handbook of LyX with can also be printed as book.
(However, the PDF looks slightly different depending on whether the
lmodern fonts are installed or not: not only is EC pixly, but also the
letter ß looks different in CM, CM-Super, EX vs. LM.)
To my knowledge lmodern is part of every TeX installation (tested with
MiKTeX and TeXLive). So almost every user should have LaTein Modern and
thus get the same output.
If you like to use special fonts you can do this in your own documents.
I don't want special fonts, but fonts that are available with every standard
TeX installation in vector (type 1) format in the font encoding used in the
docs. Currently, this is not the case. We get different fonts for PS vs. PDF
(if LM is installed) and bitmap fonts for DVI, PS and PDF(dvipdfm) PDF(ps2pdf)
as well as on sites without the optional Latin Modern fonts.
All manuals are designed to be exported as PDF (pdflatex). I could also
add a note to make this clear.
This is why I prefer to use a font that is really available in any case and
not substituted by some other or only loaded optionally.
But this is the reason why Latin Modern is used.
But why don't you load Latin Modern for PS, DVI, PDF(ps2pdf), PDF(dvipdfm)?
Because the files are not designed for that. For example DVI does not
support rotations (text, boxes and table cells). Some color examples
would also be output incorrectly. Moreover on MiKTeX exporting the
UserGuide to DVI crasheds the DVI viewer "Yap".
Some explained PDF features like bookmark entries with equations,
special chars etc. fail/are incorrectly output in PS ad also via ps2pdf.
regards Uwe
