Guenter Milde <milde <at> users.berlios.de> writes: > > If this main font contains Chinese characters, it should work for Chinese. > > If you want to use a different font for Chinese (or any other non-Latin > script) via polyglossia, this needs to be set up in the preamble. By > default, polyglossia is loaded, too, when "use non-TeX fonts" is true, so > you don't need to load it again. > Thanks Günter, yes, if the person I installed Lyx for, sets a main font that can also display Chinese then they will have no problem. I should have mentioned that they do not want to use a Unicode / Chinese font as their default text font.
Lyx displays most languages nicely on the screen even when a more limited default font that does not carry those codepoints is used. It still displays them nicely with "view in html", and on a Mac for instance, if you save this as a pdf without doing anything else you will see those languages rendered nicely. So its a shame that it can't use that font substitution information that it must know about at some level (in Qt?) to generate some Latex for the Chinese/Arabic/Russian if the user hasn't supplied any her/himself. Cheers, Lisa. (p.s. its exactly for occasional use, in our global world, that it would be nice to have this, rather than for regular multilingual users of Lyx who can choose their preferred fonts). (Polyglossia is still at 2010/7/27 (CTAN) which has no Chinese support, is that right?)
