On 8 Feb 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Philip> When I change the encoding (under options/screen options) to
>Philip> 8859-15, the fonts look ok, but the settings are not saved. As
>Philip> soon as I quit Lyx and restart it, they are reset to 8859-1.
>Philip> This is obviously a Lyx issue, but then again, "oe" doesn't
>Philip> work in XEmacs either. I would appreciate any clarification
>Philip> here.
>
>You can change the encoding in your .lyx/lyxrc file if you have one
>(if not copy lyxrc.example from lyx directory). The variable you are
>looking for is \screen_font_encoding.
Hhm, I tried that, but it seems to change the font encoding used for
the menu and popup font. When setting \screen_font_encoding to
iso8859-15, Lyx complains about missing a 8859-15 helvetica:
Could not set menu font to
-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-?-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15
Could not set popup font to
-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-?-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15
The error message is perfectly clear, since I don't have any latin9
Helvetica, but actually I want to change the font encoding used for
the text fonts only (as set Options/Screen Fonts). Or is this a global
setting which affects all font encodings including the text fonts? And
will this override the encoding set from Options/Screen Fonts?
>Philip> 2. As to Latex: will typing 8859-15 characters work with a
>Philip> simple "\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}" anyway? If not, is
>Philip> there any Latex package that can cope with this?
>
>Certainly not. You have to use latin0 or latin9, which do not see to
>be supported by latex yet... I do not know whether packages exist for
>that, you may have to ask on [fr.]comp.text.tex .
Yes, you're right, of course. But I guess it should be possible to
modify the latin1.def to create a latin9.def for use with inputenc;
it's still 8bit after all and the two encodings differ only in six
glyphs.
It's a lucky coincidence to encounter a french Latex user. How do you
guys handle this problem? Do you always use \oe to get the oe
ligature, for example? And type "oe" in emails as well?
--
Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
