My bad. Italics show if in Documents>Settings>Fonts, rather than "default," I set to sans serif to noto sans and sans/typewriter to noto mono.
John On Friday, July 5, 2019 5:54:05 PM PDT John White wrote: > Cause I am old. Habit over 20 years or more with lovely lyx. > > I don't see a Lualatex in the export menu. I see pdf (luatex), which I am > using on my 2.3.2 lyx version, and latex (luatex) which I have never tried. > > I like Noto Serif too. If you get the chance, please tell your friend that > italicized Noto serif text prints as regular (non-italicized text) when > exported via pdf (luatex) using Koma script article on my Debian stretch > machine. Italics are not lost when, all else being the same, I switch from > Noto serif to new century schoolbook. > > John > > On Friday, July 5, 2019 11:42:43 PM PDT Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > > Why would one ever use pdf2pdf? > > > > Lualatex (pdf5) generates proper PDF. > > > > I haven't encountered the italic issue, but if I can verify it I will take > > it up with the package maintainer. You can take any font you like, and if > > New Century Schoolbook 14 works, use that. I just happen to like Noto > > :-)-O > > > > el > > > > > > -- > > Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini > > On 5 Jul 2019, 19:51 +0200, John White <[email protected]>, > > wrote: > > […] > > > > > > As an experiment, I typed two sentences from an actual opinion of our > > > > Court > > > > (presuming it uses its own rules) and compared them to the lyx pdf > > > > version, > > > > using 14pt custom with koma script article and 12pt base with regular > > > > article class and it is clear that the 12pt base is too small. > > > > However, > > > > the font the Court uses is slightly smaller than the koma-script 14. > > > > As > > > > the rule says 14pt "or larger" I think I will stick with your > > > > koma-script > > > > 14pt, even if I have to trash a two or three paragraphs of my amazing > > > > prose. > > > > > > > > Thanks again! > > > > > > I note that when using noto serif font exports to pdf (lautex) I lose > > > some > > > formatting, e.g. italics are lost. And exporting noto serif to pdf2pdf > > > looks a little big. So I used New Century School book exported to pdf > > > (Pdf2pdf) which seems slightly better (less big) than when using century > > > school book and exporting to lautex pdf. This font business is > > > confusing. > > > John > > > > > > > > --------
