Hello I proposed to use Latin Modern fonts in splash.lyx as: - the default choice of fonts in LyX is bitmap, and ugly - splash.lyx is is what a new user encounters first after installing LyX - I mistakenly thought would be uncontroversial
Since there was no recent discussion on the subject, I'm opening it on lyx-devel. (The discussions that Uwe refers to have concerned, to the best of my knowledge, the default font used by LyX for _all_ new documents, which is slightly different from this report.) So are there good reasons _not_ to use LM fonts in splash.lyx? Regards Liviu On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 1:14 AM, LyX Ticket Tracker <t...@lyx.org> wrote: > #8387: use nicer fonts in splash.lyx > ---------------------------+------------------------ > Reporter: landroni | Owner: uwestoehr > Type: defect | Status: new > Priority: low | Milestone: 2.0.6 > Component: documentation | Version: 2.0.4 > Severity: minor | Resolution: > Keywords: patch | > ---------------------------+------------------------ > > Comment (by uwestoehr): > > We had this discussion several times in the past and came to the > conclusion that we should use a simple as possible document. > > Using Latin modern as in the other documentation files was once rejected > because on some preinstalled TeX distributions on Linux Latin modern was > not in the standard installation. I don't know if this is still the case. > > However, I don't see the benefit of a nice font here. The splash file is a > short welcome file not telling about the details of the font handling. > When viewing it as PDF it looks as beautiful as with Type1 fonts because > now really every PDF viewer supports subpixel smoothing. > But OK, if the decision was made, I will not block it as I'm a fan of the > latin modern fonts. But can you please point me to the discussion? (I lost > track the last months.) > > -- > Ticket URL: <http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8387#comment:2> > The LyX Project <http://www.lyx.org/> > LyX -- The Document Processor -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
