Ligatures

2020-10-23 Thread Andreas Plihal
Hi Shay,   your advice helped me. Thanks a lot.   Cheers Andreas -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Aw: Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-23 Thread Cuyahoga Falls
If you want to really get sucked in and obsessed, check our Robert Bringhurst's book, Elements of Typographic Style. Virgil On 10/23/2020 12:00 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, Virgil Arrington wrote: For what it's worth, Palatino was designed in such a way that it doesn't need

Re: Reconfigure doesn't work on Windows

2020-10-23 Thread Yu Jin
Am Do., 22. Okt. 2020 um 23:28 Uhr schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck < rikih...@lyx.org>: > On 10/22/20 12:58 PM, Kornel Benko wrote: > > Am Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:00:39 -0300 > > schrieb Carlos Knauer : > > > >> Hi > >> I have installed MiKTeX in my notebook and LyX. The command Reconfigure > >>

Re: Aw: Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, Virgil Arrington wrote: For what it's worth, Palatino was designed in such a way that it doesn't need "f" ligatures. Ligatures are used because the "f" clashes with the next letter. When Hermann Zapf designed Palatino, he designed the "f" in such a way that it doesn't clash

Re: Aw: Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-23 Thread Virgil Arrington
For what it's worth, Palatino was designed in such a way that it doesn't need "f" ligatures. Ligatures are used because the "f" clashes with the next letter. When Hermann Zapf designed Palatino, he designed the "f" in such a way that it doesn't clash into following letters; hence the "f"

Re: Aw: Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-23 Thread Shay Riggs
Hi Andreas et al, A possible workaround, should you be looking for one, is to choose “Use non-TeX fonts (via XeTeX/LuaTeX)” in document settings, and choose your particular Palatino font variant from the Roman menu. The default compiler appears to be XeTeX, but you can choose either “PDF

Re: Reconfigure doesn't work

2020-10-23 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Get a Mac. el On 2020-10-22 16:00 , Carlos Knauer wrote: > Hi > I have installed MiKTeX in my notebook and LyX.  The command Reconfigure > doesn't work.  Windows 7. May be it this problem  ? > > Carlos Fernando Knauer  > > -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: Aw: Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-23 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Andreas, this is a (LaTeX) font issue. The previewer used has nothing to do with it. And not even unknown :-)-O http://google.com/search?q=latex+palatino+ligatures So you may have to select another font. As Kornel wrote, DejVu which I don't have installed. Interestingly Tex Gyre's