Fonts available for output?

[Etienne Snyman]

Hi there!

Does anyone know of a list of fonts that are available for use by
LyX/LaTeX? I Googled a bit, but I was not able to really understand what
the results were telling me.

Basicaly, I would like to know which fonts are supported to be used in the
output. I realise that LaTeX/LyX doesn't use TTF/OTF -type fonts, but a
different sort of font, so I would like to know which ones are supported,
and if one can preview them somewhere.

Thanks so much

Etienne Snyman

Re: Fonts available for output?

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Hi Etienne,
LyX uses Latex to compose the documents. As a consequence, you should be 
able to use all font packages that are available for Latex. The 
following page gives an interesting gallery for these fonts:


http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/

If the package is not already installed in your Latex system, you must 
install it using a standard procedure (the package manager in TexLive or 
MikTex, for example), and introduce the necessary \usepackage statements 
in the preamble of your document.


I hope this helps.

Murat

Etienne Snyman wrote:

Hi there!

Does anyone know of a list of fonts that are available for use by
LyX/LaTeX? I Googled a bit, but I was not able to really understand what
the results were telling me.

Basicaly, I would like to know which fonts are supported to be used in the
output. I realise that LaTeX/LyX doesn't use TTF/OTF -type fonts, but a
different sort of font, so I would like to know which ones are supported,
and if one can preview them somewhere.

Thanks so much

Etienne Snyman


--

Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3)
GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579)
Centre de la Vieille Charité
2, rue de la Charité
13236 Marseille cedex 02

Bureau 320
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau)
Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27

e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr
mailto:murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr
www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html
http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html
http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu
__

Re: Fonts available for output?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Etienne Snyman etie...@micmusic.co.za wrote:
 Hi there!

 Does anyone know of a list of fonts that are available for use by
 LyX/LaTeX? I Googled a bit, but I was not able to really understand what
 the results were telling me.

You can see some of the fonts available in Settings  Fonts.

 Basicaly, I would like to know which fonts are supported to be used in the
 output. I realise that LaTeX/LyX doesn't use TTF/OTF -type fonts, but a
 different sort of font, so I would like to know which ones are supported,
 and if one can preview them somewhere.

You can use system fonts via XeTeX. LyX 2.0 alpha supports this
(Settings  Output), while 1.6.x needs some manual work. Search the
wiki. Regards
Liviu



 Thanks so much

 Etienne Snyman




-- 
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

Re: LyX Menus Missing!

[Richard Heck]

On 10/13/2010 01:33 AM, Jason Waskiewicz wrote:

I recently installed the Ubuntu 10.10 version for Netbooks. To my consternation,
the menu is missing in LyX. (It is present in every other program I use with the
exception of TeXmaker.)

I was wondering if there is a way to get it back. In TeXmaker, it's not a big
deal, but in LyX I seem to need it to access many of the features I use.

Or...do I need to go back to the Desktop version of Ubuntu 10.10?

   
Have you asked about this on the Ubuntu Netbook lists? This does not 
sound like a LyX problem, especially if it is also affecting TeXmaker.


Richard

Re: Default Fonts in KOMA-Script

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 13.10.2010 07:31, schrieb Rob Oakes:


But, not all of the classes use Computer Modern as the default typeface. (Yes, 
the majority do).  The Tufte classes, for example, make use of 
Palotino/Helvetica/Bera Mono.


Seems that you misunderstood me. A document class defines how a document 
should look, e.g. if the title uses a sans serif font in size huge. 
What font you are using for sans serif is your decision.
(Tufte is an exception because it doesn't follow the common document 
class rules. Tufte hardcodes almost everything so that you are limited 
in changing the layout.)


KOMA-script doesn't hardcode things. When you create a KOMA-script 
document and set in LyX the fonts to default you get usually computer 
modern for the fonts.
But note that the default font depends on the settings of your 
LaTeX-distribution. It is possible that the default fonts are set to 
Latin modern or CM super instead of Computer modern. So when you want to 
have a certain font, you should select one in the LyX document settings.


regards Uwe

Re: Default Fonts in KOMA-Script

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-10-13, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Am 13.10.2010 07:31, schrieb Rob Oakes:

 But, not all of the classes use Computer Modern as the default
 typeface. (Yes, the majority do).  The Tufte classes, for example,
 make use of Palotino/Helvetica/Bera Mono.

 Seems that you misunderstood me. A document class defines how a document 
 should look, e.g. if the title uses a sans serif font in size huge. 
 What font you are using for sans serif is your decision.

This is true for many document classes (and you can be quite
sure that the font setting is not changed if there is no mention of
the used font in a packages description).

OTOH, the font is an importont part of how a document should look
and hence it is valid for any documentclass to select a different
default font.

Especially the classes for journal submissions use this to select a font
resembling the font used in the journal.

Günter

BTW: 

* with the CM-Super bundle installed, you will get CM-Super instead of CM
  as default in most LaTeX distributions.
   
* else, with LyX's default settings you get T1 font encoding (instead
  of the LaTeX default OT1) which results in the EC (bitmap) fonts used
  instead of CM.

Re: Default Fonts in KOMA-Script

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Uwe,

Thanks for the response.  My question doesn't really have much to do with LyX, 
but rather about the defaults selected by particular LaTeX distributions.  I 
asked it on the users list mostly because it's where I know the most people and 
there are multiple TeX experts who hang out here.

On Oct 13, 2010, at 7:48 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

 Seems that you misunderstood me. A document class defines how a document 
 should look, e.g. if the title uses a sans serif font in size huge. 

I think part of the reason for the misunderstanding is that we think about 
document appearance differently (very, very differently as it turns out) and 
I was operating under a serious misunderstanding.  When you say that document 
classes define how a document should look (please correct me if I'm wrong), 
you appear to be referring to styles (family [roman, sans, typewriter], weight 
[bold, medium, light], italics, small caps, etc.), margins, indentation, 
spacing. but not the typeface itself?  I know that the default typeface for 
LaTeX is CM, and from your comments it sounds as though the default typeface is 
determined at the level of LaTeX distribution and not at the level of document 
class.  Is that right?

 What font you are using for sans serif is your decision.


Here's my background.  I mostly come to LyX from a somewhat traditional 
printing background (I worked in a printer's shop part of my time during 
college and later did a turn as the production editor for a journal), though I 
am hardly an expert on anything.  But in that environment, when someone uses 
the word appearance, they are referring to all of the properties you describe 
in addition to the font.  Perhaps most especially the font.


 Note that the default font depends on the settings of your 
 LaTeX-distribution. It is possible that the default fonts are set to Latin 
 modern or CM super instead of Computer modern. So when you want to have a 
 certain font, you should select one in the LyX document settings.

To find out that document classes don't provide a recommendation for the 
default, which has been chosen to match the spacing and design of a particular 
class, is a little shocking.  It's like learning that a composer had no 
preference of instruments and that a concerto for flute could also be played on 
an oboe, or violin without causing people to raise an eyebrow.

Certainly, you are free to change it, but the default typeface is the default 
typeface.  And I'm trying to wrap my head around the idea that such an 
important decision is apparently left up to the packagers of the LaTeX 
distribution.  (With the assumption that Computer Modern will be right in 
nearly all instances.)

In most publishing houses, that decision is made at the level of design 
template (which would be roughly analogous to document class).  If you told a 
publication designer that there is a default typeface that is right for all 
documents, I think most would look at you like you were crazy.  (That would be 
the response of most I've known, at least.)

 KOMA-script doesn't hardcode things. When you create a KOMA-script document 
 and set in LyX the fonts to default you get usually computer modern for the 
 fonts.

This I was aware of, but I still assumed that all document classes provided a 
recommendation of font, in addition to paper size, margins, spacing and all the 
rest.  After all, they all build on themselves.  A document that has been 
carefully designed to use CM or LM won't necessarily look good when typeset 
with Palatino.  Changing a font is a big modification to the document's design, 
and usually requires that you adjust several others so that things look right.

Because of my previous experience, I just assumed that LaTeX functioned 
according to similar principles.  I knew that CM was the default for LaTeX in 
general, but I had thought that class/package authors also made individual 
design choices based upon the goals of their class.

Are you aware of anyplace where the design conventions are more explicitly 
described?  I checked the LaTeX2e for class and package writers in addition 
to The LaTeX companion, but I haven't been able to find someplace where it is 
spelled out.  (I don't currently have access to Lamport's original book.)

(The request for references is mostly so that I can describe the conventions 
correctly.  I'm probably going to need to re-write a major section.)

Again, thanks for responding.  I appreciate that the information is only 
tangentially related to LyX (and of only marginal interest to most), but I'd 
really like to get things right.

Cheers,

Rob

Re: LyX Menus Missing!

[Pavel Sanda]

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:
 I was wondering if there is a way to get it back.

http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com/msg2566505.html ?
p

Re: LyX Menus Missing!

[Richard Heck]

On 10/13/2010 11:45 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote:

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:
   

I was wondering if there is a way to get it back.
 

http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com/msg2566505.html ?

   

Better yet:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/619811
which indicates a workaround.

rh

Problems with Lyx 1.6.7 under Windows 7 64bit

[Bert Morio]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
 
Had no problems with older versions of Lyx, but with Lyx 1.6.7 it is
impossible to use the FILE OPEN or the FILE SAVE AS dialog. No new
window for file select pops up. Various de- and reinstalls didn't help.

Bert Morio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
 
iEYEARECAAYFAky2E7EACgkQZv/ZJuZiaZ+HkgCdGIZ6yARw3sQAOr75ONDJBNrQ
qd8An1Qd8HSniGDpETwDSMC0N+rC0slK
=N69n
-END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Problems with Lyx 1.6.7 under Windows 7 64bit

[Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux]

On 13 October 2010 16:16, Bert Morio bert.mo...@arcor.de wrote:


 Had no problems with older versions of Lyx, but with Lyx 1.6.7 it is
 impossible to use the FILE OPEN or the FILE SAVE AS dialog. No new
 window for file select pops up. Various de- and reinstalls didn't help.


Another user had this problem recently. The solution was to enable the
Tablet PC Input service of Windows.

See the following archived thread:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg82469.html

Hope this helps. Please advise if this solution does not work for you.

Best regards,

Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux, ing. jr (OIQ)
Electrical engineering masters student, ETS (http://www.etsmtl.ca)
Project AREXIMAS (http://areximas.etsmtl.ca)

Re: Fonts available for output?

[Etienne Snyman]

 On 13/10/2010 14:11, Liviu Andronic wrote:

You can use system fonts via XeTeX. LyX 2.0 alpha supports this
(Settings  Output), while 1.6.x needs some manual work. Search the
wiki. Regards
Liviu


Hey there.

Actually, I think it would be great to publish the work via XeTeX! I 
didn't know there was planned integration! Thanks, I'll do this in the 
future. First, of course (as Julien would tell me) I need to get the 
content finished before the tweaking can begin.


Cheers!

Etienne

Re: what is a good lyx layout for notetaking?

[Steve Litt]

VimOutliner

http://www.vimoutliner.net

Re: what is a good lyx layout for notetaking?

[Alan Tyree]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

 VimOutliner

 http://www.vimoutliner.net


Org-mode for emacs. Hi Steve! :-)





-- 
Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan
Tel:  04 2748 6206

Fonts available for output?

[Etienne Snyman]

Hi there!

Does anyone know of a list of fonts that are available for use by
LyX/LaTeX? I Googled a bit, but I was not able to really understand what
the results were telling me.

Basicaly, I would like to know which fonts are supported to be used in the
output. I realise that LaTeX/LyX doesn't use TTF/OTF -type fonts, but a
different sort of font, so I would like to know which ones are supported,
and if one can preview them somewhere.

Thanks so much

Etienne Snyman

Re: Fonts available for output?

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Hi Etienne,
LyX uses Latex to compose the documents. As a consequence, you should be 
able to use all font packages that are available for Latex. The 
following page gives an interesting gallery for these fonts:


http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/

If the package is not already installed in your Latex system, you must 
install it using a standard procedure (the package manager in TexLive or 
MikTex, for example), and introduce the necessary \usepackage statements 
in the preamble of your document.


I hope this helps.

Murat

Etienne Snyman wrote:

Hi there!

Does anyone know of a list of fonts that are available for use by
LyX/LaTeX? I Googled a bit, but I was not able to really understand what
the results were telling me.

Basicaly, I would like to know which fonts are supported to be used in the
output. I realise that LaTeX/LyX doesn't use TTF/OTF -type fonts, but a
different sort of font, so I would like to know which ones are supported,
and if one can preview them somewhere.

Thanks so much

Etienne Snyman


--

Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3)
GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579)
Centre de la Vieille Charité
2, rue de la Charité
13236 Marseille cedex 02

Bureau 320
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau)
Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27

e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr
mailto:murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr
www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html
http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html
http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu
__

Re: Fonts available for output?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Etienne Snyman etie...@micmusic.co.za wrote:
 Hi there!

 Does anyone know of a list of fonts that are available for use by
 LyX/LaTeX? I Googled a bit, but I was not able to really understand what
 the results were telling me.

You can see some of the fonts available in Settings  Fonts.

 Basicaly, I would like to know which fonts are supported to be used in the
 output. I realise that LaTeX/LyX doesn't use TTF/OTF -type fonts, but a
 different sort of font, so I would like to know which ones are supported,
 and if one can preview them somewhere.

You can use system fonts via XeTeX. LyX 2.0 alpha supports this
(Settings  Output), while 1.6.x needs some manual work. Search the
wiki. Regards
Liviu



 Thanks so much

 Etienne Snyman




-- 
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

Re: LyX Menus Missing!

[Richard Heck]

On 10/13/2010 01:33 AM, Jason Waskiewicz wrote:

I recently installed the Ubuntu 10.10 version for Netbooks. To my consternation,
the menu is missing in LyX. (It is present in every other program I use with the
exception of TeXmaker.)

I was wondering if there is a way to get it back. In TeXmaker, it's not a big
deal, but in LyX I seem to need it to access many of the features I use.

Or...do I need to go back to the Desktop version of Ubuntu 10.10?

   
Have you asked about this on the Ubuntu Netbook lists? This does not 
sound like a LyX problem, especially if it is also affecting TeXmaker.


Richard

Re: Default Fonts in KOMA-Script

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 13.10.2010 07:31, schrieb Rob Oakes:


But, not all of the classes use Computer Modern as the default typeface. (Yes, 
the majority do).  The Tufte classes, for example, make use of 
Palotino/Helvetica/Bera Mono.


Seems that you misunderstood me. A document class defines how a document 
should look, e.g. if the title uses a sans serif font in size huge. 
What font you are using for sans serif is your decision.
(Tufte is an exception because it doesn't follow the common document 
class rules. Tufte hardcodes almost everything so that you are limited 
in changing the layout.)


KOMA-script doesn't hardcode things. When you create a KOMA-script 
document and set in LyX the fonts to default you get usually computer 
modern for the fonts.
But note that the default font depends on the settings of your 
LaTeX-distribution. It is possible that the default fonts are set to 
Latin modern or CM super instead of Computer modern. So when you want to 
have a certain font, you should select one in the LyX document settings.


regards Uwe

Re: Default Fonts in KOMA-Script

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-10-13, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Am 13.10.2010 07:31, schrieb Rob Oakes:

 But, not all of the classes use Computer Modern as the default
 typeface. (Yes, the majority do).  The Tufte classes, for example,
 make use of Palotino/Helvetica/Bera Mono.

 Seems that you misunderstood me. A document class defines how a document 
 should look, e.g. if the title uses a sans serif font in size huge. 
 What font you are using for sans serif is your decision.

This is true for many document classes (and you can be quite
sure that the font setting is not changed if there is no mention of
the used font in a packages description).

OTOH, the font is an importont part of how a document should look
and hence it is valid for any documentclass to select a different
default font.

Especially the classes for journal submissions use this to select a font
resembling the font used in the journal.

Günter

BTW: 

* with the CM-Super bundle installed, you will get CM-Super instead of CM
  as default in most LaTeX distributions.
   
* else, with LyX's default settings you get T1 font encoding (instead
  of the LaTeX default OT1) which results in the EC (bitmap) fonts used
  instead of CM.

Re: Default Fonts in KOMA-Script

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Uwe,

Thanks for the response.  My question doesn't really have much to do with LyX, 
but rather about the defaults selected by particular LaTeX distributions.  I 
asked it on the users list mostly because it's where I know the most people and 
there are multiple TeX experts who hang out here.

On Oct 13, 2010, at 7:48 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

 Seems that you misunderstood me. A document class defines how a document 
 should look, e.g. if the title uses a sans serif font in size huge. 

I think part of the reason for the misunderstanding is that we think about 
document appearance differently (very, very differently as it turns out) and 
I was operating under a serious misunderstanding.  When you say that document 
classes define how a document should look (please correct me if I'm wrong), 
you appear to be referring to styles (family [roman, sans, typewriter], weight 
[bold, medium, light], italics, small caps, etc.), margins, indentation, 
spacing. but not the typeface itself?  I know that the default typeface for 
LaTeX is CM, and from your comments it sounds as though the default typeface is 
determined at the level of LaTeX distribution and not at the level of document 
class.  Is that right?

 What font you are using for sans serif is your decision.


Here's my background.  I mostly come to LyX from a somewhat traditional 
printing background (I worked in a printer's shop part of my time during 
college and later did a turn as the production editor for a journal), though I 
am hardly an expert on anything.  But in that environment, when someone uses 
the word appearance, they are referring to all of the properties you describe 
in addition to the font.  Perhaps most especially the font.


 Note that the default font depends on the settings of your 
 LaTeX-distribution. It is possible that the default fonts are set to Latin 
 modern or CM super instead of Computer modern. So when you want to have a 
 certain font, you should select one in the LyX document settings.

To find out that document classes don't provide a recommendation for the 
default, which has been chosen to match the spacing and design of a particular 
class, is a little shocking.  It's like learning that a composer had no 
preference of instruments and that a concerto for flute could also be played on 
an oboe, or violin without causing people to raise an eyebrow.

Certainly, you are free to change it, but the default typeface is the default 
typeface.  And I'm trying to wrap my head around the idea that such an 
important decision is apparently left up to the packagers of the LaTeX 
distribution.  (With the assumption that Computer Modern will be right in 
nearly all instances.)

In most publishing houses, that decision is made at the level of design 
template (which would be roughly analogous to document class).  If you told a 
publication designer that there is a default typeface that is right for all 
documents, I think most would look at you like you were crazy.  (That would be 
the response of most I've known, at least.)

 KOMA-script doesn't hardcode things. When you create a KOMA-script document 
 and set in LyX the fonts to default you get usually computer modern for the 
 fonts.

This I was aware of, but I still assumed that all document classes provided a 
recommendation of font, in addition to paper size, margins, spacing and all the 
rest.  After all, they all build on themselves.  A document that has been 
carefully designed to use CM or LM won't necessarily look good when typeset 
with Palatino.  Changing a font is a big modification to the document's design, 
and usually requires that you adjust several others so that things look right.

Because of my previous experience, I just assumed that LaTeX functioned 
according to similar principles.  I knew that CM was the default for LaTeX in 
general, but I had thought that class/package authors also made individual 
design choices based upon the goals of their class.

Are you aware of anyplace where the design conventions are more explicitly 
described?  I checked the LaTeX2e for class and package writers in addition 
to The LaTeX companion, but I haven't been able to find someplace where it is 
spelled out.  (I don't currently have access to Lamport's original book.)

(The request for references is mostly so that I can describe the conventions 
correctly.  I'm probably going to need to re-write a major section.)

Again, thanks for responding.  I appreciate that the information is only 
tangentially related to LyX (and of only marginal interest to most), but I'd 
really like to get things right.

Cheers,

Rob

Re: LyX Menus Missing!

[Pavel Sanda]

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:
 I was wondering if there is a way to get it back.

http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com/msg2566505.html ?
p

Re: LyX Menus Missing!

[Richard Heck]

On 10/13/2010 11:45 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote:

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:
   

I was wondering if there is a way to get it back.
 

http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com/msg2566505.html ?

   

Better yet:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/619811
which indicates a workaround.

rh

Problems with Lyx 1.6.7 under Windows 7 64bit

[Bert Morio]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
 
Had no problems with older versions of Lyx, but with Lyx 1.6.7 it is
impossible to use the FILE OPEN or the FILE SAVE AS dialog. No new
window for file select pops up. Various de- and reinstalls didn't help.

Bert Morio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
 
iEYEARECAAYFAky2E7EACgkQZv/ZJuZiaZ+HkgCdGIZ6yARw3sQAOr75ONDJBNrQ
qd8An1Qd8HSniGDpETwDSMC0N+rC0slK
=N69n
-END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Problems with Lyx 1.6.7 under Windows 7 64bit

[Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux]

On 13 October 2010 16:16, Bert Morio bert.mo...@arcor.de wrote:


 Had no problems with older versions of Lyx, but with Lyx 1.6.7 it is
 impossible to use the FILE OPEN or the FILE SAVE AS dialog. No new
 window for file select pops up. Various de- and reinstalls didn't help.


Another user had this problem recently. The solution was to enable the
Tablet PC Input service of Windows.

See the following archived thread:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg82469.html

Hope this helps. Please advise if this solution does not work for you.

Best regards,

Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux, ing. jr (OIQ)
Electrical engineering masters student, ETS (http://www.etsmtl.ca)
Project AREXIMAS (http://areximas.etsmtl.ca)

Re: Fonts available for output?

[Etienne Snyman]

 On 13/10/2010 14:11, Liviu Andronic wrote:

You can use system fonts via XeTeX. LyX 2.0 alpha supports this
(Settings  Output), while 1.6.x needs some manual work. Search the
wiki. Regards
Liviu


Hey there.

Actually, I think it would be great to publish the work via XeTeX! I 
didn't know there was planned integration! Thanks, I'll do this in the 
future. First, of course (as Julien would tell me) I need to get the 
content finished before the tweaking can begin.


Cheers!

Etienne

Re: what is a good lyx layout for notetaking?

[Steve Litt]

VimOutliner

http://www.vimoutliner.net

Re: what is a good lyx layout for notetaking?

[Alan Tyree]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

 VimOutliner

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Fonts available for output?

[Etienne Snyman]

Hi there!

Does anyone know of a list of fonts that are available for use by
LyX/LaTeX? I Googled a bit, but I was not able to really understand what
the results were telling me.

Basicaly, I would like to know which fonts are supported to be used in the
output. I realise that LaTeX/LyX doesn't use TTF/OTF -type fonts, but a
different sort of font, so I would like to know which ones are supported,
and if one can preview them somewhere.

Thanks so much

Etienne Snyman

Re: Fonts available for output?

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Hi Etienne,
LyX uses Latex to compose the documents. As a consequence, you should be 
able to use all font packages that are available for Latex. The 
following page gives an interesting gallery for these fonts:


http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/

If the package is not already installed in your Latex system, you must 
install it using a standard procedure (the package manager in TexLive or 
MikTex, for example), and introduce the necessary \usepackage statements 
in the preamble of your document.


I hope this helps.

Murat

Etienne Snyman wrote:

Hi there!

Does anyone know of a list of fonts that are available for use by
LyX/LaTeX? I Googled a bit, but I was not able to really understand what
the results were telling me.

Basicaly, I would like to know which fonts are supported to be used in the
output. I realise that LaTeX/LyX doesn't use TTF/OTF -type fonts, but a
different sort of font, so I would like to know which ones are supported,
and if one can preview them somewhere.

Thanks so much

Etienne Snyman


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Re: Fonts available for output?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Etienne Snyman  wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> Does anyone know of a list of fonts that are available for use by
> LyX/LaTeX? I Googled a bit, but I was not able to really understand what
> the results were telling me.
>
You can see some of the fonts available in Settings > Fonts.

> Basicaly, I would like to know which fonts are supported to be used in the
> output. I realise that LaTeX/LyX doesn't use TTF/OTF -type fonts, but a
> different sort of font, so I would like to know which ones are supported,
> and if one can preview them somewhere.
>
You can use system fonts via XeTeX. LyX 2.0 alpha supports this
(Settings > Output), while 1.6.x needs some manual work. Search the
wiki. Regards
Liviu



> Thanks so much
>
> Etienne Snyman
>



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Re: LyX Menus Missing!

[Richard Heck]

On 10/13/2010 01:33 AM, Jason Waskiewicz wrote:

I recently installed the Ubuntu 10.10 version for Netbooks. To my consternation,
the menu is missing in LyX. (It is present in every other program I use with the
exception of TeXmaker.)

I was wondering if there is a way to get it back. In TeXmaker, it's not a big
deal, but in LyX I seem to need it to access many of the features I use.

Or...do I need to go back to the Desktop version of Ubuntu 10.10?

   
Have you asked about this on the Ubuntu Netbook lists? This does not 
sound like a LyX problem, especially if it is also affecting TeXmaker.


Richard

Re: Default Fonts in KOMA-Script

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 13.10.2010 07:31, schrieb Rob Oakes:


But, not all of the classes use Computer Modern as the default typeface. (Yes, 
the majority do).  The Tufte classes, for example, make use of 
Palotino/Helvetica/Bera Mono.


Seems that you misunderstood me. A document class defines how a document 
should look, e.g. if the title uses a sans serif font in size "huge". 
What font you are using for sans serif is your decision.
(Tufte is an exception because it doesn't follow the common document 
class rules. Tufte hardcodes almost everything so that you are limited 
in changing the layout.)


KOMA-script doesn't hardcode things. When you create a KOMA-script 
document and set in LyX the fonts to "default" you get usually computer 
modern for the fonts.
But note that the default font depends on the settings of your 
LaTeX-distribution. It is possible that the default fonts are set to 
Latin modern or CM super instead of Computer modern. So when you want to 
have a certain font, you should select one in the LyX document settings.


regards Uwe

Re: Default Fonts in KOMA-Script

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-10-13, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Am 13.10.2010 07:31, schrieb Rob Oakes:

>> But, not all of the classes use Computer Modern as the default
>> typeface. (Yes, the majority do).  The Tufte classes, for example,
>> make use of Palotino/Helvetica/Bera Mono.

> Seems that you misunderstood me. A document class defines how a document 
> should look, e.g. if the title uses a sans serif font in size "huge". 
> What font you are using for sans serif is your decision.

This is true for many document classes (and you can be quite
sure that the font setting is not changed if there is no mention of
the used font in a packages description).

OTOH, the font is an importont part of "how a document should look"
and hence it is valid for any documentclass to select a different
default font.

Especially the classes for journal submissions use this to select a font
resembling the font used in the journal.

Günter

BTW: 

* with the CM-Super bundle installed, you will get CM-Super instead of CM
  as default in most LaTeX distributions.
   
* else, with LyX's default settings you get "T1" font encoding (instead
  of the LaTeX default "OT1") which results in the EC (bitmap) fonts used
  instead of CM.

Re: Default Fonts in KOMA-Script

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Uwe,

Thanks for the response.  My question doesn't really have much to do with LyX, 
but rather about the defaults selected by particular LaTeX distributions.  I 
asked it on the users list mostly because it's where I know the most people and 
there are multiple TeX experts who hang out here.

On Oct 13, 2010, at 7:48 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

> Seems that you misunderstood me. A document class defines how a document 
> should look, e.g. if the title uses a sans serif font in size "huge". 

I think part of the reason for the misunderstanding is that we think about 
document "appearance" differently (very, very differently as it turns out) and 
I was operating under a serious misunderstanding.  When you say that document 
classes define "how a document should look" (please correct me if I'm wrong), 
you appear to be referring to styles (family [roman, sans, typewriter], weight 
[bold, medium, light], italics, small caps, etc.), margins, indentation, 
spacing. but not the typeface itself?  I know that the default typeface for 
LaTeX is CM, and from your comments it sounds as though the default typeface is 
determined at the level of LaTeX distribution and not at the level of document 
class.  Is that right?

> What font you are using for sans serif is your decision.


Here's my background.  I mostly come to LyX from a somewhat traditional 
printing background (I worked in a printer's shop part of my time during 
college and later did a turn as the production editor for a journal), though I 
am hardly an expert on anything.  But in that environment, when someone uses 
the word "appearance", they are referring to all of the properties you describe 
in addition to the font.  Perhaps most especially the font.


> Note that the default font depends on the settings of your 
> LaTeX-distribution. It is possible that the default fonts are set to Latin 
> modern or CM super instead of Computer modern. So when you want to have a 
> certain font, you should select one in the LyX document settings.

To find out that document classes don't provide a recommendation for the 
default, which has been chosen to match the spacing and design of a particular 
class, is a little shocking.  It's like learning that a composer had no 
preference of instruments and that a concerto for flute could also be played on 
an oboe, or violin without causing people to raise an eyebrow.

Certainly, you are free to change it, but the default typeface is the default 
typeface.  And I'm trying to wrap my head around the idea that such an 
important decision is apparently left up to the packagers of the LaTeX 
distribution.  (With the assumption that Computer Modern will be right in 
nearly all instances.)

In most publishing houses, that decision is made at the level of design 
template (which would be roughly analogous to document class).  If you told a 
publication designer that there is a default typeface that is right for all 
documents, I think most would look at you like you were crazy.  (That would be 
the response of most I've known, at least.)

> KOMA-script doesn't hardcode things. When you create a KOMA-script document 
> and set in LyX the fonts to "default" you get usually computer modern for the 
> fonts.

This I was aware of, but I still assumed that all document classes provided a 
recommendation of font, in addition to paper size, margins, spacing and all the 
rest.  After all, they all build on themselves.  A document that has been 
carefully designed to use CM or LM won't necessarily look good when typeset 
with Palatino.  Changing a font is a big modification to the document's design, 
and usually requires that you adjust several others so that things look "right."

Because of my previous experience, I just assumed that LaTeX functioned 
according to similar principles.  I knew that CM was the default for LaTeX in 
general, but I had thought that class/package authors also made individual 
design choices based upon the goals of their class.

Are you aware of anyplace where the design conventions are more explicitly 
described?  I checked the "LaTeX2e for class and package writers" in addition 
to "The LaTeX companion", but I haven't been able to find someplace where it is 
spelled out.  (I don't currently have access to Lamport's original book.)

(The request for references is mostly so that I can describe the conventions 
correctly.  I'm probably going to need to re-write a major section.)

Again, thanks for responding.  I appreciate that the information is only 
tangentially related to LyX (and of only marginal interest to most), but I'd 
really like to get things right.

Cheers,

Rob

Re: LyX Menus Missing!

[Pavel Sanda]

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a way to get it back.

http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com/msg2566505.html ?
p

Re: LyX Menus Missing!

[Richard Heck]

On 10/13/2010 11:45 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote:

Jason Waskiewicz wrote:
   

I was wondering if there is a way to get it back.
 

http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com/msg2566505.html ?

   

Better yet:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/619811
which indicates a workaround.

rh

Problems with Lyx 1.6.7 under Windows 7 64bit

[Bert Morio]

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Had no problems with older versions of Lyx, but with Lyx 1.6.7 it is
impossible to use the FILE OPEN or the FILE SAVE AS dialog. No new
window for file select pops up. Various de- and reinstalls didn't help.

Bert Morio
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Re: Problems with Lyx 1.6.7 under Windows 7 64bit

[Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux]

On 13 October 2010 16:16, Bert Morio  wrote:

>
> Had no problems with older versions of Lyx, but with Lyx 1.6.7 it is
> impossible to use the FILE OPEN or the FILE SAVE AS dialog. No new
> window for file select pops up. Various de- and reinstalls didn't help.
>
>
Another user had this problem recently. The solution was to enable the
"Tablet PC Input" service of Windows.

See the following archived thread:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg82469.html

Hope this helps. Please advise if this solution does not work for you.

Best regards,

Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux, ing. jr (OIQ)
Electrical engineering masters student, ETS (http://www.etsmtl.ca)
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Re: Fonts available for output?

[Etienne Snyman]

 On 13/10/2010 14:11, Liviu Andronic wrote:

You can use system fonts via XeTeX. LyX 2.0 alpha supports this
(Settings>  Output), while 1.6.x needs some manual work. Search the
wiki. Regards
Liviu


Hey there.

Actually, I think it would be great to publish the work via XeTeX! I 
didn't know there was planned integration! Thanks, I'll do this in the 
future. First, of course (as Julien would tell me) I need to get the 
content finished before the tweaking can begin.


Cheers!

Etienne

Re: what is a good lyx layout for notetaking?

[Steve Litt]

VimOutliner

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Re: what is a good lyx layout for notetaking?

[Alan Tyree]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> VimOutliner
>
> http://www.vimoutliner.net
>

Org-mode for emacs. Hi Steve! :-)





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