On 2/24/10, Andrey <[email protected]> wrote: > I did. The trouble is, as I said from the start, I am practically > Latex-illiterate, so the Latex techniques are pretty much useless to me at > the > moment - I can't apply them to LyX. I tried some basic stuff, like modifying > the > Mixing LyX and pure LaTeX is often straight-forward, via the Preamble and ERT boxes.
> Latex preamble with what I could find on the Internet, but that, of course, > did > not work. > > There is a very promising link was about writing in Devanagri using LyX and > XeLatex > You might want to try the development version of LyX, since in SVN LyX has some support for XeTeX [1]. The wiki has something [2] on the subject, too. I am not familiar with it, but it seems to let you use in LyX any of the system fonts. And since Slavonic characters [3] are correctly displayed in my browser, I can only assume that LyX with XeTeX can readily display those. Liviu [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20#toc5 [2] http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yat > (http://www.wikihow.com/Create-Devanagari-Documents-in-Lyx-Using-Xelatex). > Now, > if writing in Devanagri is possible, writing in old Russian should also be a > piece of cake. If only somebody walked me through it. But for that somebody > needs to actually use old Russian characters in their routine writing in > Lyx. I > hoped such a person existed, but apparently I was wrong :-( > > Now > > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
