On 5 December 2013 03:36, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:06 PM, David L. Johnson > <david.john...@lehigh.edu> wrote: >> On 12/04/2013 12:43 PM, mike wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> Even though I am an old LaTeX user (but a new LyX user) for my current >>> purposes I would like to be able to print in a format very similar to what I >>> see on the screen in LyX. I do realise that LyX is not intended to be >>> wysiwyg but what I see on the screen (some basic text and mathematics and >>> nested itemised lists) is just about perfect for what I need if I could just >>> figure out how to print it so that the printouts look like what I see on the >>> screen. >> >> I guess I don't understand what you mean. On the one hand, if you have that >> on the screen, isn't it printed out that way? Aside from re-formatting the >> text to fit the page width, of course. What else about the way it looks on >> the screen do you not get on the printout? >> >> On the other hand, why would you want it to look more like the screen than >> the usual TeX output? TeX adds in ligatures and other fancy font details, >> re-sets the page width and justification, and prints what you wrote. Some >> fonts are different, but usually better than the on-screen appearance. Why >> would you want it more like the screen? > > +1 LaTeX is better and prettier for rendering than LyX. > > More details would be useful. The only reason I can think of is that > you don't have LaTeX installed or you are getting LaTeX errors. > > To answer your question though, I don't think this is possible other > than taking screen shots. I could be wrong though.
It may not be obvious to him but I think he's looking for the UI font that he sees on the screen. In that case, mimic the exact font and point size (up to a max by default) in the document settings (you will have to use LuaTeX or XeTeX for the TTF support). -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
