On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > > One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because
> > > of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever likely to
> > > improve?
> >
> > what do you mean here ?
>
> I wouldn't want to make assumptions about what Kathryn meant, but what _I_
> would mean by being bad at fonts is:
Thanks for not assuming, but you hit the nail on the head.
> 1. You only get a few fonts pre-installed with your standard TeX/LaTeX
> distribution (not necessarily a bad thing, though).
Agreed. After leaving the world of hundreds of TrueType fonts, it's a
rather a letdown.
> 2. Although there are some very nice TeXable fonts out there, installing
> them is about as intuitive as quantum physics.
Say it again, man! Even with some nice tools like vfontinst, you still
have to mess around in the bowels...
> 3. Even if you actually manage to get a new font installed, LyX won't
> recognise it.
Evil Red Text is required -- that or making your own Style (which is
what I ended up doing).
> As I've said before, a very nice feature/plugin for LyX would be a
> font-installer. My dream would be something that would connect to my nearest
> CTAN mirror, download the fonts I want, integrate them in my TeX system and
> add them to the LyX "default font" popup.
Or simply something that would allow me to use all of my existing
TrueType fonts as easily as I can now use them in X-Windows.
> Oh yes, and although I normally decry it as bad typesetting, occasionally it
> would be nice to have more than one font in the same document.
Agreed. What I've used LyX for, a fanzine, I had two main styles of
"body" font -- one for prose, and another for poetry. I used a
script-style font for the poetry. Obviously most people won't need to
do that, and I agree that less is beautiful and logical markup is King,
but even so...
LyX wasn't actually free -- it cost me $72 (the price of Lamport's LaTeX
book). Oddly enough, I found the book catalogued under "programming
languages".
Kathryn Andersen
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