Am Mittwoch, 14. Juni 2006 02:54 schrieb Larry: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:06:18AM +0200, Ingo Kl?cker wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 13. Juni 2006 10:47 schrieb Paul Smith: > > > On 6/13/06, Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How do I increase print font size in lyx? Everything I print is > > > > really small, although in LyX gui they are quite large? > > > > > > Change the size of the font of your document; in LyX 1.4.1: > > > > > > Document -> Settings -> Text layout -> Document font. > > > > And understand that LyX is not a WYSIWYG application (like MS Word > > or OpenOffice.org). The printout will usually look very different > > from the text in the LyX GUI. I suggest (re-)reading the > > Introduction to LyX which is available under Help->Introduction. > > I read the introduction. Evidently you are restricted to what lyx > thinks you mean. I want larger fonts on some things than 12. This > document is one of them. All I can get is small fonts.
You can increase the font size in several steps. Look at Format->Character. > I'm not really impressed too much by lyx. I feel restricted as to > what forms and fashions I can use to create documents. I have read a > lot of documentation on lyx over the past several days and what I > gather is you are quite restricted, unless that is, if you want to do > math and such things as that. I think you are completely missing the point what LyX and LaTeX is all about. Just like with HTML in combination with CSS, LyX/LaTeX is mainly concerned with the contents. Unless you are a typographer you shouldn't have to worry about layouting a document. LyX/LaTeX will take care of this if you choose the right document class. If you want to do fancy stuff and want to have full control over the layout than you either have to use a lot of LaTeX code in LyX (via ERT) or you should use a word processor (like OpenOffice.org or MS Word) which doesn't help you with layouting but forces you to do all the layouting yourself (with the result of a much inferior layout to what LyX/LaTeX would create). > I think really I should just stick with Openoffice for writing. It is > much simpler to use for actual writing and producing forms. Except, > like I said, unless you want to do math formulae. Maybe for your special use case you are right. But in general you are completely mistaken. LyX/LaTeX can be used to typeset any kinds of documents. For example I write all my letters with LyX, because I never have to worry about correct spacing or placement of address, date, etc. LaTeX places everything at the correct spot (in my case following the German norm for letters). Regards, Ingo -- Ingo Klöcker Lehrstuhl A für Mathematik RWTH Aachen 52056 Aachen
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