On Friday 07 September 2001 01:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > > > One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's
> > > > because of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever
> > > > likely to improve?
> > >
> > > what do you mean here ?
> >
> > I wouldn't want to make assumptions about what Kathryn meant, but what
> > _I_ would mean by being bad at fonts is:
>
> Thanks for not assuming, but you hit the nail on the head.
>
> > 1. You only get a few fonts pre-installed with your standard TeX/LaTeX
> > distribution (not necessarily a bad thing, though).
>
> Agreed. After leaving the world of hundreds of TrueType fonts, it's a
> rather a letdown.
>
> > 2. Although there are some very nice TeXable fonts out there, installing
> > them is about as intuitive as quantum physics.
>
> Say it again, man! Even with some nice tools like vfontinst, you still
> have to mess around in the bowels...
Woohoo, I actually did it! OK, it took me a couple of hours just to do one
test font, but now I can print from LyX in ugly Comic Sans MS!
Interested and determined parties can check out
http://www.pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/latex/no-bs.html
Less masochistic types who prefer to get their fonts from CTAN rather than
piss around with TrueType fonts might find the following useful:
http://www.ctan.org/ctan/install.html
OK, most of you probably knew that already, but it's amazing what you can
miss when browsing through archives.
>
> > 3. Even if you actually manage to get a new font installed, LyX won't
> > recognise it.
>
> Evil Red Text is required -- that or making your own Style (which is
> what I ended up doing).
>
> > As I've said before, a very nice feature/plugin for LyX would be a
> > font-installer. My dream would be something that would connect to my
> > nearest CTAN mirror, download the fonts I want, integrate them in my TeX
> > system and add them to the LyX "default font" popup.
>
> Or simply something that would allow me to use all of my existing
> TrueType fonts as easily as I can now use them in X-Windows.
Should be easy for some script wizard to write! The nice thing about
Unix/Linux is that just about anything you can do once, you can script to do
umpteen times. But I'm worn out after my heroic achievement ...
