Am Dienstag 05 März 2013, 11:29:30 schrieb [email protected]:
> I suspect that the Palatino that appears in the font list is NOT the
> same as Palatino Linotype, especially in terms of spacing-- it takes
> less space than Georgia, which uses less space than Helvetica or Arial.
> When I try to use the URW Palladino that appears in the list, I get the
> error message: Font-not-found, even though I have TeX gyre and other
> packages installed that say they use URW Palladino.
> I had solved my immediate problem using Georgia, but I like the
> appearance of Palatino, and would love to use it in the future, if I
> could persuade Lyx to let me.
There used to be support files for Linotype Palatino (which is a commercial
font which you have to purchase from Linotype) by Walter Schmidt [1]. However,
Walter Schmidt has declared the package obsolete, since recent TeX
distributions include both URW Palladio (a real Palatino clone) and true small
caps and old style figures for that (so-called fpl font). This is what you get
when you select "Palatino" from the LyX font combo, provided your laTeX
distribution is fairly new.
An alternative is TeX Gyre Pagella, also a Palatino clone, which you can call
by
\usepackage{tgpagella}
in the preamble.
Georgia, on the other hand, is all but a Palatino clone. So if you have to use
Palatino, using Palladio (via "Palatino" in LyX's font selection) or Pagella
is a very good choice; almost nobody will notice the difference to Linotype
Palatino. Any somewhat typographically informed person will, however, notice
the difference from Georgia to Palatino.
HTH
Jürgen
[1] http://cq131a.de/fonts.html
