On 2010-05-13, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Andrew Parsloe wrote: >> Having recently discovered just how much clearer the Latin Modern fonts >> are in Acrobat Reader compared with the Computer Modern fonts, and for >> that matter how much crisper they are when printed, is there any reason >> for LyX defaulting to Computer Modern rather than Latin Modern?
Actually, LyX does not set any default but leaves this to LaTeX. OTOH, LyX does set the LaTeX font encoding to "T1" (configurable in Tools>Preferences) which results in the CM fonts beeing substituted by either CM-Super (if installed) or EC bitmap fonts. >> I know it is a simple matter to change them from the >> Document/Settings/Fonts screen but given the much crisper look of >> Latin Modern surely that should be the default font family in LyX? > The reason is that "default" means whatever the current document class > declares "default". And that isn't necessarily Computer Modern (so we > are not supposed to hardcode a specific "default" font). However, as Templates do set the document class, LyX could set Document>Settings>Fonts to Latin Modern in all templates where the document class is known not to include font settings. Günter
