Jens Stolze wrote:
>
> Michael Zapf wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > When I want to produce pdf files I insert the line "\usepackage{pslatex}" in the
> > LaTeX preamble and then use ps2pdf (or distill). That works very well - except
> > for the itemization bullets which seem to not appear correctly in the pdf file.
>
> Hi,
>
> that's for me a known feature of ps2pdf...;-((.
>
> > The reason is that, obviously, pslatex does not map the bullet to a character of
> > the Type 1 font but includes a character definition for it. (You can see this
> > when opening the postscript file with a text editor.) This results in a bad
> > display with acroread, and, even worse, the bullets are not printed at all.
>
> Ugly, indeed! Therefor I export to tex and use pdflatex, ... and the
> bullets are OK.
Only doing that, I don't get my figures any more. I've tried inserting
graphics as Postscript, and that doesn't work either (pdflatex says "Unknown
graphics extension" for both EPS and PS files, which seems stupid to me. I
don't *want* to insert the pictures as Latex, because I want to *see* them,
I want to use Figure semantics within LyX. Besides I can't figure out how. I
tried importing as combined ps and latex, as xfig allows me to export that,
but pdflatex can't understand those either. When I imported as PDF, the
figures were only seen in a bounding box the size of the "page" they were
printed on IYSWIM.
So with PDF, it's bullet points, figures, well-rendered text - choose two,
you can't have all three. Gah!
I'd rather redefine the bullet point somehow. is this possible?
Sod it, unless someone can quickly come up with something sensible, I'm
jumping ship. Except it's a problem finding any other good enough
word-processor on Linux.
To be fair, most modern word-processors do allow a reasonable amount of
WYSIWYM anyway - you define styles (which the authors of the LyX
documentation chose to ignore) and you can apply those styles eg: "Title"
"Author" "Bullet list" "Section", "Subsection" etc. at will and define the
look of the styles independently. You can think of the WYSIWYG as a bonus
then.
--
Rachel
