Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

John Culleton wrote: Verdana is Microsoft's name for Helvetica. I doubt that. Verdana is a genuine development by the font designer Matthew Carter. You probably refer to Arial, which is similar (but not identical) to Helvetica. Jürgen

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Hi, I am trying elyxer under the last version of Lyx (1.6.3) . I have followed the instructions in the list given by Olivier: I managed to get elyxer working by doing the following: - copy elyxer.py to the script folder (C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.3\Resources\scripts) on

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

Other than being sans serif typefaces, Helvetica (along with Arial) have little in common with Verdana. Consulting both Wikipedia and Bringhurst's 'The Elements of Typographic Style', Helvetica is in the humanist family of typefaces and was designed in the 1950's, before digital typography.

Re: Problems with LyX 1.6.3

Reuven Segev schrieb: Following your advice I uninstalled 1.6.2 and installed 1.6.3. I tried both the classical and yours alternative version (not at the same time) but the results were the same. While I can run some documents, for other documents (converted from LaTeX by 1.6.2) I get: Inset::

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

Alex Fernandez schrieb: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Murat Yildizoglumurat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr wrote: I am trying elyxer under the last version of Lyx (1.6.3) . I have followed the instructions in the list given by Olivier: Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the

Re: LyX crashes upon referencing images

I am running LyX in Ubuntu 9.04 and I'm working on a document that contains many figures and tables. LyX has crashed multiple times when working with these figures I'm inserting. I'm inserting figures by doing a float, then insert graphic. I found that when I try to adjust the

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

Hi Uwe, On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Uwe Stöhruwesto...@web.de wrote: Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the box? I haven't downloaded it to try, but I was under that impression. Well, maybe not. No, but LyX 1.6.3 recognizes eLyXer when it is installed. To help LyX to

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

Thanks for all your responses. Ingar, I tried using the Winfonts package and followed the instructions in the README file, but it doesn't seem to work for me. I'm using a Windows Vista system, and updated the updmap.cfg and ttf2pk.cfg files, as instructed. I then refreshed the File name DB for

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

If you really need Verdana, you must use XeTeX. This is not officially supported (yet) but there are workarounds. Search for XeTeX at the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org). On 2009-06-13, Richard Talley wrote: It can be hard to find typefaces that look excellent on paper and on screen (and on both

Fwd: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

Thank you for all your help. In fact, I have also put the path to Lyx's script folder (where elyxer resides) to the path box in the preferences of Lyx in the same time as the configuration of the Lyx-HTML conversion command box. If I read well Olivier's message, there is not any contradiction

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

John Culleton wrote: Verdana is Microsoft's name for Helvetica. I doubt that. Verdana is a genuine development by the font designer Matthew Carter. You probably refer to Arial, which is similar (but not identical) to Helvetica. Jürgen

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Hi, I am trying elyxer under the last version of Lyx (1.6.3) . I have followed the instructions in the list given by Olivier: I managed to get elyxer working by doing the following: - copy elyxer.py to the script folder (C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.3\Resources\scripts) on

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

Other than being sans serif typefaces, Helvetica (along with Arial) have little in common with Verdana. Consulting both Wikipedia and Bringhurst's 'The Elements of Typographic Style', Helvetica is in the humanist family of typefaces and was designed in the 1950's, before digital typography.

Re: Problems with LyX 1.6.3

Reuven Segev schrieb: Following your advice I uninstalled 1.6.2 and installed 1.6.3. I tried both the classical and yours alternative version (not at the same time) but the results were the same. While I can run some documents, for other documents (converted from LaTeX by 1.6.2) I get: Inset::

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

Alex Fernandez schrieb: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Murat Yildizoglumurat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr wrote: I am trying elyxer under the last version of Lyx (1.6.3) . I have followed the instructions in the list given by Olivier: Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the

Re: LyX crashes upon referencing images

I am running LyX in Ubuntu 9.04 and I'm working on a document that contains many figures and tables. LyX has crashed multiple times when working with these figures I'm inserting. I'm inserting figures by doing a float, then insert graphic. I found that when I try to adjust the

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

Hi Uwe, On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Uwe Stöhruwesto...@web.de wrote: Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the box? I haven't downloaded it to try, but I was under that impression. Well, maybe not. No, but LyX 1.6.3 recognizes eLyXer when it is installed. To help LyX to

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

Thanks for all your responses. Ingar, I tried using the Winfonts package and followed the instructions in the README file, but it doesn't seem to work for me. I'm using a Windows Vista system, and updated the updmap.cfg and ttf2pk.cfg files, as instructed. I then refreshed the File name DB for

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

If you really need Verdana, you must use XeTeX. This is not officially supported (yet) but there are workarounds. Search for XeTeX at the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org). On 2009-06-13, Richard Talley wrote: It can be hard to find typefaces that look excellent on paper and on screen (and on both

Fwd: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

Thank you for all your help. In fact, I have also put the path to Lyx's script folder (where elyxer resides) to the path box in the preferences of Lyx in the same time as the configuration of the Lyx-HTML conversion command box. If I read well Olivier's message, there is not any contradiction

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

John Culleton wrote: > Verdana is Microsoft's name for Helvetica. I doubt that. Verdana is a genuine development by the font designer Matthew Carter. You probably refer to Arial, which is similar (but not identical) to Helvetica. Jürgen

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Hi, I am trying elyxer under the last version of Lyx (1.6.3) . I have followed the instructions in the list given by Olivier: "I managed to get elyxer working by doing the following: - copy elyxer.py to the script folder ("C:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.3\Resources\scripts")

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

Other than being sans serif typefaces, Helvetica (along with Arial) have little in common with Verdana. Consulting both Wikipedia and Bringhurst's 'The Elements of Typographic Style', Helvetica is in the humanist family of typefaces and was designed in the 1950's, before digital typography.

Re: Problems with LyX 1.6.3

Reuven Segev schrieb: Following your advice I uninstalled 1.6.2 and installed 1.6.3. I tried both the "classical" and yours "alternative" version (not at the same time) but the results were the same. While I can run some documents, for other documents (converted from LaTeX by 1.6.2) I get:

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

Alex Fernandez schrieb: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: I am trying elyxer under the last version of Lyx (1.6.3) . I have followed the instructions in the list given by Olivier: Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the

Re: LyX crashes upon referencing images

> >> I am running LyX in Ubuntu 9.04 and I'm working on > a document that > >> contains many figures and tables. LyX has crashed > multiple times when > >> working with these figures I'm inserting. > >> > >> I'm inserting figures by doing a float, then > insert graphic. I found > >> that when I

Re: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

Hi Uwe, On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Wasn't LyX 1.6.3 supposed to support eLyXer out of the box? I haven't >> downloaded it to try, but I was under that impression. Well, maybe >> not. > > No, but LyX 1.6.3 recognizes eLyXer when it is installed. To help

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

Thanks for all your responses. Ingar, I tried using the Winfonts package and followed the instructions in the README file, but it doesn't seem to work for me. I'm using a Windows Vista system, and updated the updmap.cfg and ttf2pk.cfg files, as instructed. I then refreshed the File name DB for

Re: Need Verdana font for the PDF generated from Lyx

If you really need Verdana, you must use XeTeX. This is not officially supported (yet) but there are workarounds. Search for XeTeX at the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org). On 2009-06-13, Richard Talley wrote: > It can be hard to find typefaces that look excellent on paper and on > screen (and on both

Fwd: Elyxer and Lyx 1.6.3

Thank you for all your help. In fact, I have also put the path to Lyx's script folder (where elyxer resides) to the path box in the preferences of Lyx in the same time as the configuration of the Lyx->HTML conversion command box. If I read well Olivier's message, there is not any contradiction