Here is a mwe of the New PX problem.
On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 9:33 AM Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 3:15 PM Christopher Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Jan 12, 2024, at 9:03 AM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm writing another paper for IEEE conference. I'm using lualatex to
>> produce pdf.
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>> In document/settings/fonts, I'm set to using all defaults. If I don't
>> check 'use non-TeX fonts', the output looks good. If I do check 'use
>> non-TeX fonts', the fonts look much thinner and to my eye not very
>> pleasing. Again I have not changed any font settings from defaults.
>>
>>
>> And that’s why they don’t look good. You need to choose one from the
>> drop-down list. The problem with using non-TeX fonts is that there might
>> not be a corresponding math font. One that does have a math font and that
>> looks quite nice is Cambria. If you are using MacOS or Windows you should
>> have it on your machine if you’ve installed Office 365 or a standalone of
>> any of the usual Microsoft applications. To get the corresponding math font
>> once you’ve selected Cambria from the drop-down, add the following to the
>> preamble:
>>
>> \usepackage{unicode-math}
>> \setmathfont{Cambria Math}
>>
>> If you’re using Linux, there are instructions to be found on the
>> interwebs for installing the Microsoft fonts Cambria, Calibri, and
>> Consolas. They are extracted from the old PowerPoint Viewer, which
>> Microsoft released for free and hence (so I recall gathering from
>> discussions in various forums) can be extracted and used legally.
>>
>> Is there a recommended alternative set of fonts?
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>> For TeX fonts, I really like New PX
>> <https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/newpx/>, a descendent of Palatino with a
>> very nice math font. Add the following to your preamble (and select
>> “Default” from the drop-down font list):
>>
>> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>> \usepackage{newpxtext,newpxmath}
>>
>> Vastly superior aesthetically to the long outdated (but still, sadly,
>> oft-used) Computer Modern default.
>>
>> Chris Menzel
>>
>> I just tried out the New PX alternative. It looks good except for one
> strange problem. In the top of the paper is author name and authormark.
> Authormark (1 author) will be an asterisk. With CM the asterisk is in the
> normal position, but with New PX the asterisk is about the middle of the
> text height, not in a superscript position. Since this is right at the top
> of the paper and glaringly obvious I don't think I can use it.
>
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%% LyX 2.4.0~RC1 created this file. For more info, see https://www.lyx.org/. %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing. \documentclass[american,conference]{IEEEtran} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{luainputenc} \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{verbose} \makeatletter %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% User specified LaTeX commands. %\pdfoptionpdfminorversion=7 %\usepackage{cite} %\usepackage{hyperref} %\usepackage{url} \usepackage{flushend} %\usepackage{unicode-math} %\setmathfont{Cambria Math} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{newpxtext,newpxmath} \makeatother \usepackage{babel} \begin{document} \title{A Very Interesting Title} \author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Neal Becker\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}}\IEEEauthorblockA{Hughes Network Systems, Germantown MD\\ Email: \IEEEauthorrefmark{1}neal.bec...@hughes.com}} \maketitle \begin{abstract} This abstract is very abstract \end{abstract} \section{Introduction} Consider the topic introduced. \end{document}
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