Re: Installing fonts [was: Re: Specifying explicit point sizes]

2001-02-14 Thread Herbert Voss
robin wrote: > > > > | Jim Osborn wrote: > > | > > > | > Hi LyX experts, > > | > > > | > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size > > | > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" > > | > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? > > | > > | > > | have

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-13 Thread Christopher Jones
When I was home for break over Christmas, I was forced to use MSWord. It was precisely the way it handled font sizes that had me all frustrated. > - Part of the beauty and new paradigm (WYSIWYM) of LyX is precisely that it > - does not bother the user with exact type sizes etc. Just went throug

Installing fonts [was: Re: Specifying explicit point sizes]

2001-02-13 Thread robin
> | Jim Osborn wrote: > | > > | > Hi LyX experts, > | > > | > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size > | > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" > | > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? > | > | > | have a look at > | http://www.educat.hu-b

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-13 Thread Stephen Carville
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, A. L. Meyers wrote: - Dear fellow LyXers, - - Part of the beauty and new paradigm (WYSIWYM) of LyX is precisely that it - does not bother the user with exact type sizes etc. Just went through - reformatting a cv using LyX. In 15 minutes I had a beautifully formatted cv - usi

RE: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-13 Thread Pavel Cizek
> Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? LyX does not really support this as you might have noticed from reactions to you question, simply because it is not the wa

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread A . L . Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Monday 12 February 2001 22:24, Herbert Voss wrote: > Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Jim Osborn wrote: > > > When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen > > > points. She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger" > > >

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Jim Osborn wrote: > > > When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen > > points. She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger" > > would have been laughed out of a job. > > Well put :). I guess that the reason LaTeX (and LyX

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Jim Osborn wrote: > When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen > points. She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger" > would have been laughed out of a job. Well put :). I guess that the reason LaTeX (and LyX) doesn't use specific numeric sizes is

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
> When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen > points. She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger" > would have been laughed out of a job. I guess that person would have found a position on this side of the pond ;-) Andre' -- André Pönitz ...

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jim Osborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) asks: | >| > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size | >| > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" | >| > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? | >| | > | >But I st

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Jim Osborn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) asks: >| > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size >| > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" >| > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? >| > >But I still want to know _why_ you need this. My wife, who ha

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Jim Osborn wrote: | > | > Hi LyX experts, | > | > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size | > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" | > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? | | | have a look at |

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Herbert Voss
Jim Osborn wrote: > > Hi LyX experts, > > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? have a look at http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts.html#newfont He

Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-12 Thread Jim Osborn
Hi LyX experts, Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? I'm using 1.1.5 currently, but I'll upgrade if necessary. TIA, Jim