>Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2011-05-10, Neal Becker wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in trying out xetex. Any suggestions for font settings
>> to try (free, widely available)? This is fedora 14, have stix fonts.
>
> This very much depends on what you want to achieve.
> As with XeTeX, you can use system fonts, this leaves the realm of TeX
> and you can follow the advise of the typesetting gurus.
>
> Some links:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typophile_%28Internet_Forum%29
> http://praegnanz.de/essays/freie-schriften-anspruch-und-wirklichkeit
> (German)
> http://www.100besteschriften.de/ (German)
>
> If you want matching math fonts, the selection becomes considerably
> narrower.
>
>> How are math fonts selected?
>
> By default, math fonts are not changed and still taken from the 8-bit
> encoded CM fonts.
>
> To configure math fonts, there are two options:
>
> a) load a traditional math-font package like fourier, txfonts or
> qtxfonts or mathdesign or kpmath or ...
> *before* configuring the text fonts.
>
> In LyX this means to leave the Font GUI at [Default], read the
> fontconfig documentation and configure text fonts in the LaTeX
> preamble, e.g.
>
> % Requirements
> \usepackage{fourier}
>
> % Text font
> \usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
> \usepackage{xunicode}
> \setmainfont[BoldFont={XITS Bold},ItalicFont={XITS Italic}]{XITS Math}
> \setsansfont{DejaVu Sans}
> % \setmonofont[HyphenChar=None,Scale=MatchUppercase]{DejaVu Sans Mono}
> \setmonofont[HyphenChar=None,Scale=MatchUppercase]{FreeMono}
>
> b) use the experimental "unicode-math" package
> http://ctan.org/pkg/unicode-math
> with one of the few OpenType Math fonts Asana-Math, XITS, Cambria-Math
> (from MS-Word), NeuEuler or (the soon to be released) LM-Math.
>
> Again, you need to call and configure this in the LaTeX preamble.
> See the comprehensive package documentation
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/unicode-math/unicode-math.pdf
>
> As this is hithero not tested with LyX, you might expect some
> incompatibilities and problems.
>
> Günter
Thanks! I found setting
roman -> XITS
+
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{XITS Math}
was good. Only missing a \tt font to go with it. I tried Deja Sans Mono, but
the characters look larger than the roman text, not good. Also tried Nimbus
mono, but it's too thin.
