Re: Can I Install a New TeX font in LyX?
On 29.10.2011 22:33, Kenedy Torcatt wrote: Hello Guys. I' a windows user and using LyX 2.0. I need to use Arial font for my documents, I tried deactivating TeX Fonts and choose Arial from my windows installed fonts, after that I tried to compile with Xetex but I'm just getting errors! Probably one on the XeteX/MikTeX packages is broken. Hopefully, it may be fixed soon. I know that Helvetiva is almost an Arial clone and I can select Helvetica from TeX fonts from sans serif 's drop down menu, but I did a research and found that urw-arial located here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/urw/arial/ is an Arial font pack for use with LaTeX. I need to know how to install it and show it in the LyX dropdown menu for sans serif 's fonts the same way as selecting Helvetica. I have the same limitation as you have. Please note that the URW A030 Arial is not really Arial. The differences between Arial and Helvetica are described in http://ilovetypography.com/2007/10/06/arial-versus-helvetica/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html When using the URW Arial, the G and R are the Arial ones, but the C, t, a, 1 are the Helvetica ones. You can actually even see that for a, t and 1 on the sample text on page: http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/arial/ which also states that "The font that is actually provided is URW A030". I could notice that in latex code appear \usepackage{helvet} when I select it in the drop down menu, so I think is possible to do the same thing for the urw-arial. After all it will be just adding another font to LyX. If you nonetheless want to use this fake arial font, once you have it installed through MikTeX (which I think you have already), all you need to do is to add \usepackage[scaled]{uarial} to the preamble (in Document -> Settings... -> LaTeX Preamble). I need to know how to do that... A tutorial or something please. Please help! Thankyou in advance... Best regards, Olivier PS: off-topic. You wrote "Helvetiva is almost an Arial clone", but it's more the opposite. Kenedy
Re: Can I Install a New TeX font in LyX?
Am 29.10.2011 um 22:33 schrieb Kenedy Torcatt: > Hello Guys. I' a windows user and using LyX 2.0. > > I need to use Arial font for my documents, I tried deactivating TeX > Fonts and choose Arial from my windows installed fonts, after that I > tried to compile with Xetex but I'm just getting errors! > > I know that Helvetiva is almost an Arial clone and I can select To be more precise: Arial is almost an Helvetica clone. German wiki states that many printers replace Arial by Helvetica in printouts. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial Stephan
Re: Can I Install a New TeX font in LyX?
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Kenedy Torcatt wrote: > Hello Guys. I' a windows user and using LyX 2.0. > > I need to use Arial font for my documents, I tried deactivating TeX > Fonts and choose Arial from my windows installed fonts, after that I > tried to compile with Xetex but I'm just getting errors! > What errors? We may be able to help if you saved Document > LaTeX log to a file and attached it to your message. > I know that Helvetiva is almost an Arial clone and I can select > Helvetica from TeX fonts from sans serif 's drop down menu, but I did > a research and found that urw-arial > located here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/urw/arial/ is an > I assume you use MiKTeX. Then it might be available in the Package Manager. If it isn't, you may need to follow the package docs for installation [1]. Also check Help > Customization > Section 5.1. [1] http://ctan.org/pkg/urw-arial > Arial font pack for use with LaTeX. I need to know how to install it > and show it in the LyX dropdown menu for sans serif 's fonts the same > way as selecting Helvetica. > You may be better off simply using Helvetica (and setting Sans Serif as the main font for your document), or getting XeTeX and/or LuaTeX up and working on your system. For that you may need to Update your MiKTeX database. Liviu > I could notice that in latex code appear \usepackage{helvet} when I > select it in the drop down menu, so I think is possible to do the same > thing for the urw-arial. After all it will be just adding another font > to LyX. > > I need to know how to do that... A tutorial or something please. > > Please help! > Thankyou in advance... > > Kenedy > -- 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
Can I Install a New TeX font in LyX?
Hello Guys. I' a windows user and using LyX 2.0. I need to use Arial font for my documents, I tried deactivating TeX Fonts and choose Arial from my windows installed fonts, after that I tried to compile with Xetex but I'm just getting errors! I know that Helvetiva is almost an Arial clone and I can select Helvetica from TeX fonts from sans serif 's drop down menu, but I did a research and found that urw-arial located here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/urw/arial/ is an Arial font pack for use with LaTeX. I need to know how to install it and show it in the LyX dropdown menu for sans serif 's fonts the same way as selecting Helvetica. I could notice that in latex code appear \usepackage{helvet} when I select it in the drop down menu, so I think is possible to do the same thing for the urw-arial. After all it will be just adding another font to LyX. I need to know how to do that... A tutorial or something please. Please help! Thankyou in advance... Kenedy