Re: Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

[Kosta Welke]

On Fri, 1 May 2009 13:10:08 -0700
Kleanthes Koniaris k...@koniaris.com wrote:

 I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in  
 some English, along with a few Chinese characters.  Everything  
 displays very nicely in LyX.  

Yeah, well, that can be confusing. Always remember: Just because it
looks good in LyX, doesn't mean it works in LaTeX ;)

There's basically two ways to use chinese characters in LaTeX: CJK or
XeTeX. I don't know anything about CJK, but the XeTeX way is described
here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX

HTH,

Kosta

Re: Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

[Kosta Welke]

On Fri, 1 May 2009 13:10:08 -0700
Kleanthes Koniaris k...@koniaris.com wrote:

 I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in  
 some English, along with a few Chinese characters.  Everything  
 displays very nicely in LyX.  

Yeah, well, that can be confusing. Always remember: Just because it
looks good in LyX, doesn't mean it works in LaTeX ;)

There's basically two ways to use chinese characters in LaTeX: CJK or
XeTeX. I don't know anything about CJK, but the XeTeX way is described
here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX

HTH,

Kosta

Re: Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

[Kosta Welke]

On Fri, 1 May 2009 13:10:08 -0700
Kleanthes Koniaris  wrote:

> I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in  
> some English, along with a few Chinese characters.  Everything  
> displays very nicely in LyX.  

Yeah, well, that can be confusing. Always remember: Just because it
looks good in LyX, doesn't mean it works in LaTeX ;)

There's basically two ways to use chinese characters in LaTeX: CJK or
XeTeX. I don't know anything about CJK, but the XeTeX way is described
here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX

HTH,

Kosta

Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

[Kleanthes Koniaris]

Hello Everybody,

I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in  
some English, along with a few Chinese characters.  Everything  
displays very nicely in LyX.  For each group of Chinese characters I  
used the menu setting Edit/Text Style/Customized.../ and set the  
Language to Chinese.


Finally, I clicked upon the View PDF (pdflatex) icon, which spins  
the Mac's beach ball for a while (many tens of seconds), and then  
the following error message results, apparently once for each Chinese  
character:


Font C10/fs/m/n/10/18=gsfs 1418 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM)  
file not
Font \C10 /fs/m/n/10=nullfont not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.


For each error message it gives a description, something like this

I wasn't able to read the size data for this font, so I will ignore  
the font specification.

[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec; e.g., type `|/ 
fontsame font id=substitute font name'.


Does this mean that I somehow do not have Chinese fonts in the MacTex  
distribution, and that my issues are not at all related to LyX but  
MacTex?


Any help would be most welcome, as LyX is a great tool, but I really  
need to be able to use Chinese characters


Many thanks,

kgk

Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

[Kleanthes Koniaris]

Hello Everybody,

I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in  
some English, along with a few Chinese characters.  Everything  
displays very nicely in LyX.  For each group of Chinese characters I  
used the menu setting Edit/Text Style/Customized.../ and set the  
Language to Chinese.


Finally, I clicked upon the View PDF (pdflatex) icon, which spins  
the Mac's beach ball for a while (many tens of seconds), and then  
the following error message results, apparently once for each Chinese  
character:


Font C10/fs/m/n/10/18=gsfs 1418 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM)  
file not
Font \C10 /fs/m/n/10=nullfont not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.


For each error message it gives a description, something like this

I wasn't able to read the size data for this font, so I will ignore  
the font specification.

[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec; e.g., type `|/ 
fontsame font id=substitute font name'.


Does this mean that I somehow do not have Chinese fonts in the MacTex  
distribution, and that my issues are not at all related to LyX but  
MacTex?


Any help would be most welcome, as LyX is a great tool, but I really  
need to be able to use Chinese characters


Many thanks,

kgk

Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

[Kleanthes Koniaris]

Hello Everybody,

I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in  
some English, along with a few Chinese characters.  Everything  
displays very nicely in LyX.  For each group of Chinese characters I  
used the menu setting Edit/Text Style/Customized.../ and set the  
Language to Chinese.


Finally, I clicked upon the "View PDF (pdflatex)" icon, which spins  
the Mac's "beach ball" for a while (many tens of seconds), and then  
the following error message results, apparently once for each Chinese  
character:


Font C10/fs/m/n/10/18=gsfs 1418 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM)  
file not
Font \C10 /fs/m/n/10=nullfont not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not  
found.


For each error message it gives a description, something like this

I wasn't able to read the size data for this font, so I will ignore  
the font specification.

[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec; e.g., type `|/ 
font='.


Does this mean that I somehow do not have Chinese fonts in the MacTex  
distribution, and that my issues are not at all related to LyX but  
MacTex?


Any help would be most welcome, as LyX is a great tool, but I really  
need to be able to use Chinese characters


Many thanks,

kgk