I am looking for an alternative to Word and found LyX very interesting.
I use several home-made fonts with special characters (like hookedo, v-with-accent, av-ligatures etc.) not available in standard fonts. In LyX I could use these fonts as screen fonts, but I could not figure out how to use them as print fonts. So how do I do? I have installed LyX 1.3.2 on Aqua (Mac OSX 10.2.6).
You have to install the fonts for use by (La)TeX.
Here's a set of instructions which I just posted to the Mac OS X TeX list:
Read the Fontinst documentation
(available from www.tug.org)
But if you're using non-standard encodings, you might not need this.
and Philipp Lehman's wonderful tutorial.
The latter is linked to at http://members.aol.com/willadams/books-free-type.html
Short version:
- rename fonts according to the fontname scheme (www.tug.org/fontname I think it's at)
(you'll use zsomething, say zjw)
- run fontinst (this is on CTAN) on said .afm files w/ the three line driver file:
\input fontinst
\latinfamily{pad}{}
(that'd by zjw)
\bye (you can use padj and/or padx if you've got the expert set)
Or, use afm2tfm and just get .pl files. You'll probably need to convert the fonts from Mac format to PC/Unix format.
- run vptovf and pltotf (these are included w/ gwtex) on the .vpl and .pl files
- then add the fonts to your .map file(s), store everything away appropriately and update the filename database if you store them somewhere other than your ~/Library/texmf subtree
William
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