On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:26:57AM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: > The pdf file generated using LyX has all the characters showing up very > poorly - the fonts are messed up and so the document looks very shabby. > I know that the pdflatex on my machine (windows2000) works fine cos any > tex file that I edit myself and use pdflatex on produces a good looking > pdf file whereas if I use LyX directly or convert the LyX file to Tex > and use pdflatex, I get a horrible looking document. > > Anyone know a fix to this problem? I assume it has something to do with > the packages that LyX uses by default?
Read section 3.3.6 of Extended.lyx If you are lazy to read it, then all you need to do is either - Select ae font in the document dialog or - Change font encoding to default in the preferences dialog.