John Culleton wrote:
I use a variety of fonts with e.g. pdftex or Context. But when I fire up Lyx I
find about five available. What can be done to make my additional fonts,
some of which are purchased, available to Lyx?
I use Slackware Linux and Lyx 1.5.1. Is the answer to the above different for
Windows users?
To use a font in the LyX user interface: configure it in tools->preferences.
This is possible if the font is available for your windowing system (X when
on linux). Note that this setting does not affect printing at all. It
only affects
what the text looks like while you work on it on the screen.
To print with some font - make it available to latex. Latex have support
packages for some fonts, these can be loaded with \usepackage commands
in the latex preamble. Some font providers also provide such packages for
their commercial fonts. If this is the case in your case, install the font
packages into your latex distribution.
If there is no existing latex support for your font - prepare for some work.
I have done that once, without experience it took me a week to figure
everything out from howto-documents on the web. You will have to
run various programs that extract the information latex need from the
fonts, put the files in the right places, and update various config files
so latex can use the fonts. Then, use low-level font commands
in the latex preamble in order to select your self-installed font.
Alternatively, use xetex. Xetex is like latex, but is able to use
any font available to the windowing system. So using special
fonts is much easier. wiki.lyx.org have tips on how to use xetex with LyX.
Be aware that xetex have limitations compared to latex.
Helge Hafting
