On 02/02/12 21:47, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2012-02-02, John O'Gorman wrote:
>
>> With more recent versions of LyX (e.g. 1.6.4.2 on a Mac and 1.6.5 on
>> Linux) this seems to be broken,
>> I get the error messages:
>> command \cedover unavailable in encoding T1
>> command \uunderer unavailable in encoding T1
> ...
>
>> \DeclareTextCommand{\uunder}{OT1}[1]%
>> {{\o@lign{\relax#1\crcr\hidewidth\sh@ft{29}%
>> \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\char21}\vss}\hidewidth}}}
>> There is a similar command for cedover. As you can see, they use the
>> encoding OT1.
>> How can I set LyX to use OT1 encoding (or is that undesirable)?
> You can set the font encoding (called "latex encoding" by LyX) in the
> settings:
>
> 1.6.x only allows global setting under Utils>Preferences
> 2.x also allows per-document configuration
>
> Generally, T1 encoding is preferable because it also supports accented
> characters (like ü) which in OT1 encoding is built of 2 parts so that
> copy/paste and search in a PDF (or PS) file do not work as expected.
>
> Mark that with the use of the T1 font encoding, the Computer Modern fonts
> are replaced by the (bitmap!) European Modern fonts unless you select a
> different font (e.g. Latin Modern) for your document.
Thank you! That did the trick.
If I set the default font to Latin Modern will that overcome all the
deficiencies of OT1 (v T1)?
With thanks
John O'Gorman
> Günter
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