Thanks! I was referring to the Document Settings since the font chosen there affects the printed output. I'm not so concerned about the on-screen fonts.
I used MikTeX to install new font packages, and ran LyX Edit-->Reconfigure, with no discernible affect. Oh well, I guess it's probably a MikTeX issue. I'll figure it out somehow. Thanks again. Cheers, David -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 1:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to add new fonts to LyX, esp. in Win32 port [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > How do I add new fonts to LyX, so that they become available in the > "Font & size:" listbox in the "Document Settings" dialog box (reached > from the menu via Layout-->Document)? > > The User Guide says this about fonts, in Subsection 3.5.2: "The > possible options under Fonts include 'default' and a list of fonts > available on your system." What is meant by "fonts available on your > system", especially w.r.t. the Win32 port? In Windows, under > Settings-->Control Panel-->Fonts, there are a great many more fonts > than appear in the LyX listbox. Is there a configuration setting or > file that governs what fonts are available in LyX? > > Thanks! Cheers, David > We need to distinguish between the fonts LyX uses to display your document in the GUI and the fonts used to produce the final product (DVI, PDF, whatever). The fonts used for the GUI need to be installed as Windows fonts, and will be a (small) subset of the fonts you see in the Windows fonts applet. The fonts in the document settings menu (and those referred to in the User Guide) are the fonts used by LaTeX to render the document. The latter fonts must be supplied as TeX/LaTeX packages and properly installed in your TeX distribution, so that TeX can find the appropriate metric files etc. (We're approaching the limits of what I know about TeX fonts, so I'm going to stop before I insert my foot in my mouth.) If your distribution is MiKTeX, use the MiKTeX package manager to install additional TeX fonts as desired. That done, you may need to run Edit->Reconfigure from LyX to get LyX to see them. (I'm not sure if that's necessary or not.) HTH, Paul
