On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Kenedy Torcatt <yde...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Guys. I' a windows user and using LyX 2.0. > > I need to use Arial font for my documents, I tried deactivating TeX > Fonts and choose Arial from my windows installed fonts, after that I > tried to compile with Xetex but I'm just getting errors! > What errors? We may be able to help if you saved Document > LaTeX log to a file and attached it to your message.
> I know that Helvetiva is almost an Arial clone and I can select > Helvetica from TeX fonts from sans serif 's drop down menu, but I did > a research and found that urw-arial > located here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/urw/arial/ is an > I assume you use MiKTeX. Then it might be available in the Package Manager. If it isn't, you may need to follow the package docs for installation [1]. Also check Help > Customization > Section 5.1. [1] http://ctan.org/pkg/urw-arial > Arial font pack for use with LaTeX. I need to know how to install it > and show it in the LyX dropdown menu for sans serif 's fonts the same > way as selecting Helvetica. > You may be better off simply using Helvetica (and setting Sans Serif as the main font for your document), or getting XeTeX and/or LuaTeX up and working on your system. For that you may need to Update your MiKTeX database. Liviu > I could notice that in latex code appear \usepackage{helvet} when I > select it in the drop down menu, so I think is possible to do the same > thing for the urw-arial. After all it will be just adding another font > to LyX. > > I need to know how to do that... A tutorial or something please. > > Please help! > Thankyou in advance... > > Kenedy > -- 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
