Am Sonntag, 25. Oktober 2015 um 16:48:39, schrieb Guenter Milde
<mi...@users.sf.net>
> On 2015-10-25, Guenter Milde wrote:
> > On 2015-10-25, Kornel Benko wrote:
> >> Am Sonntag, 25. Oktober 2015 um 08:02:54, schrieb Guenter Milde
> >> <mi...@users.sf.net>
> >>> On 2015-10-25, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>
> >>> > How can I compile the Russian intro manual with polyglossia and non-TeX
> >>> > fonts? Do I need to change any encodings?
>
> >>> With non-TeX fonts (aka fontspec), the input encoding is utf8 and the font
> >>> encoding Unicode (pseudo fontencoding EU1 with XeTeX and EU2 with LuaTeX).
> >>> There is no need to change encodings, this is done correctly by LyX
> >>> respectively the fontspec package.
>
> >>> However, you may need to select a suitable (non-TeX) font that provides
> >>> Cyrillic letters.
>
> >>> There are Latex packages and polyglossia setup commands to use different
> >>> fonts for different scripts or languages, but these are currently not
> >>> supported by the LyX GUI. Therefore I suggest a multi-script font for the
> >>> international Lyx manuals - at least for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
>
> >>> A reasonable choice would be "DejaVu", a comprehensive free Opentype font
> >>> that is designed to work well on screen and in print. It is also used by
> >>> Open/LibreOffice and hence already installed on many places.
>
> >> Unfortunately it does not compile with Dejavu fonts due to missing glyphs.
> >> I tried also Droid, Uralic, Doulos SIL ... but none worked ( same reason).
>
> > Then this seems to be a very exotic character, not a "normal" Cyrillic
> > letter.
> > I'll have a look in the next days.
>
> It turned out, that the problem is the preamble code:
>
> \usepackage{ifpdf} % part of the hyperref bundle
> \ifpdf % if pdflatex is used
>
> % set fonts for nicer pdf view
> \IfFileExists{lmodern.sty}{\usepackage{lmodern}}{}
>
> \fi % end if pdflatex is used
>
> \ifpdf tests the *output format*, i.e. DVI vs. PDF. It is also true for
> XeTeX and LuaTeX and hence not suitable at this place.
>
> The test on this place (if required at all not not to be replaced by a
> better font selection by the GUI) must be on the *font encoding* or the
> use of the "fontspec" package (testing for XeTeX/LuaTeX is not better,
> because with TeX fonts these engines would require LModern (instead of the
> bitmap EC fonts), too.
>
> Removing the test and setting "use non-TeX fonts" helped for LuaTeX but
> currently not for XeTeX (where the export uses "ascii" encoding).
>
> Günter
Thanks Günter. Tests will use now Dejavu as non tex font for Russian and
Ukrainian lang.
Still the preamble has to be corrected of course.
Kornel
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