> My problem at present is that if I type Chinese characters in to my > document, and the Document > Settings > Language > Encoding options is > set to something other than 'Unicode (XeTeX) (utf8)', then attempting > to view the document as PDF generates a LaTeX error.
Sorry, forgot to specify that if I do this and leave the default LaTeX processing options in place, I get garbage where the Chinese should be. I was unable to find a way to select a font that fixed this, even by following the Unicode wiki page. I discovered the XeTeX settings on another wiki page, however using these makes the quick PDF preview button on the toolbar unusable (it's still LaTeX-linked) and exporting via XeTeX using File > Export > PDF (xelatex) makes the text disappear altogether. > I am appealing for help with getting arbitrary fonts to display > (including, if possible, Thai/Lao/Burmese style combining glyphs) in > my output as I do not wish or have time to become an expert in the > historical inadequacies of font formats, their various commercial > restrictions, format conversions, the evolution of TeX or LyX, or the > reason why LyX has not yet moved to the otherwise universal default of > utf8 for everything. Realised the latter point is possibly because LyX cannot assume that the local TeX processing environment includes XeTeX. However, it would be nice to auto-detect. In my particular situation on Gentoo my system is set up exclusively with UTF8-enabled locales, so the lyx package installation process should probably set intelligent defaults. I have filed a bug for this @ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344509 Still no idea how to get this working... - Walter
