On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 09:58:00AM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2016-11-21, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> 
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> > When including a child document, should the child document's setting for
> > non-TeX fonts affect compilation from the master?
> 
> I don't know the details of the current handling of master/child
> conflicts, but
> 
> * the "use-non-TeX fonts" setting should be the same in master and child.
> 
>   While, in principle, it is possible to use 8-bit fonts and Unicode fonts
>   in one document, this is 
>     - a very rare use case
>     - very complicated to get right
>   and does not need native LyX support. 
>   (It should stay achievable by a combination of ERT, user-preamble and
>   expert settings.)
> 
> * conflicts should be handled like other conflicting document settings, e.g.,
>   different document classes.

Thanks for the explanation. I expected master's setting to dominate, but
perhaps there are other issues with that. I doubt many people do that
intentionally, so perhaps the best is just a warning to the user.

Scott

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