Am 03.12.2015 um 09:47 schrieb Guenter Milde:
- I cannot view the Greek Intro manual via pdflatex.
Greek is problematic because of the Greek script using a non-standard
font-encoding with 8-bit TeX.
Greek requires more than a minimal install, e.g. support for the LGR font
encoding and LGR encoded fonts.
I have this and I can compile the file in LyX 2.1.4 but the file in
2.2.0git is also not compilable with 2.1.4. Teh reason is this:
! Font LGR/phv/m/n/12=grar10 at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file
not found.
I see the following options (in order of preference)
a) Use LatinModern.
+1 no bitmaps
+1 LatinModern is "current best practice".
-0 an installation with Greek is non-minimal anyway, so requiring LModern
is not requiring much.
I have done this now. We used Latin Modern before (also in 2.1.4) so
actually we don't change anything and the file is compilable with
pdflatex, XeTeX and LuaTeX.
Users with heavy use of the Cyrillic script will quite likely have the
CM-Super package installed. This substitutes (almost) all CM-fonts with
outlined variants.
We cannot assume this because the Windows installer doesn't do this for
you and MiKTeX doesn't install them by default. So as a new user on
Windows you don't cm-super installed since you don't know the
problematic. All you see at first is a pixelated output. This needs to
be avoided because the first few minutes with a new program are important.
With CM-Super installed, everything is fine.
I see the following options (in order of preference):
a) Optionally use cmlgc via preamble.
+1 no bitmaps
+1 small requirement
+1 no CB-fonts (big install) required
-3 preamble code overwriting LyX's font setting
(especially with Greek, users might want to "play" with different fonts)
CM-lgc in for an unknown reason not available vie TeXLive nor MiKTeX's
package manager. So this is not an option.
b) Leave all on default
+1 simple
-1 bitmap fonts unless CM-Super is installed.
I did this now. Appareantly there is no simple solution than to install
CM-super.
I am not sure about splash.
This is not intended to be typeset, is it?
Yes, this is just the welcome page of LyX. Of course users might want to
see it as PDF.
I'd use Palatino, Helvetica, Courier for languages where this works,
LModern for Greek and Default for others.
OK. I'll do this tomorrow or you could do this. This would help me.
many thanks and regards
Uwe
