> First, I had to delete "\documentclass{article}" because it was
> creating a conflict with the document class setting in the GUI - and I
> couldn't figure out how not to specify the document class by the GUI.
> But that shouldn't be a problem. In the GUI I set it to article - plain.
Sure, that's why I wrote "you need all the stuff marked by %<--" in the
preamble, not "the whole stuff".
> Second, apparently some of the glyphs that I need are not available in
> the DejaVu Serif font. I want to use Junicode anyway. So I changed the
> font line by replacing DejaVu Serif with Junicode. And later I changed
> it to just "\setfontroman{Junicode}." I get the same results either way.
>
> And third, I changed the test text to be just "[bɪt͡ʃ]."
>
> The results are interesting. I have attached a PDF of the word in huger
> size, regular, italic, bold, and bold-italic. The PDF was created by
> exporting to pdflatex and then using xelatex to convert to PDF. I hope
> the PDF makes it through to the list.
Why don't you convert with xelatex directly, as described on the wiki?
> Note that the tie bar is completely wrong. It is too high and it covers
> only the t. More interesting is that the other characters dropped out
> in bold and bold-italic. Yet Junicode definitely has those characters
> in all four fonts. I also tested with Liberation and Arial Unicode MS,
> both of which also have the characters in all four fonts, and I got the
> same results.
>
> I have no idea what is wrong with the tie bar. It works fine everywhere
> else - OOo, Firefox, Abiword, Scribus - even here in Sylpheed, my mail
> client. And it appears fine on screen in LyX. It just doesn't output
> correctly from Lyx.
Could you post the LaTeX code?
BTW it works for me with DejaVu Serif. See attached file.
Jürgen
bitch.pdf
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