Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > First of all, thanks for pointing me to this text, but I must tell you > that after reading it I realised that I do _not_ commit _any_ of those > "deadly sins".
I didn't want to imply that. I just wanted to point to an old LyX task, namely the font handling being outdated. > Did you notice that I used Euler for math with palatino? yes :-) > As you can see the difference is only in the math font. And that > difference is deliberate. I _want_ Euler for my math. No. The difference is that palatino.sty loads helvetica and does not scale it correctly. And mathpazo supports not only the palladio fonts (palatino clones) which are included in the base35, but also true palatino fonts with true smallcaps and old style nums (of course you have to buy those. I did, and I didn't regret the EUR25 ever since. The smallcaps and the oldstyle nums are just beautiful). Also, IIRC, the metrics in mathpazo.sty are better than in palatino.sty. http://home.vr-web.de/was/pplx.html > Notice that you could scale Helvetica by 0.9 to 0.92 after loading > palatino and euler similar to the suggestion in the article. Sure. But no one does it. IMO LyX should scale correctly. > A person who doesn't care about math can _much_ easier recognise the > name palatino than mathpazo. If you write only non-math texts, why > would you care whether it's palatino or mathpazo? My wife writes her > letters in LyX. She really doesn't care either about math or Helvetica > scaling. Palatino works great for her. It's far from obsolete. Does not matter if you use LyX. The name in the combo will still be palatino. Just LyX loads the mathpazo package. Notice that Walter Schmidt, the maintainer of the psfnss bundle (the type-1 support for LaTeX) declared palatino.sty obsolete. It's likely to be removed in favor of mathpazo. > The footnote number 4 on the page 3 prompted me to start using > Palatino+Euler combination, and I'm happy with it ever since. I believe that. But notice that I am not a mathematican. I newer use math fonts (only greek sometimes). So I can't really judge that. > > And instead of ae, I'd recommend latin modern, a much better type-1 > > version of cm (though still beta and not yet perfect). > > Which package do you load for this? \usepackage{lmodern}. See http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=uselmfonts Regards, Jürgen. > Best regards, > -- > Zvezdan Petkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/
