Thank you Gunter! I made the changes in Documents > Settings and in Tools > Preferences and everything ran smoothly the first time. It took me a second to remember to reset the screen font before typing this but everything looks like it is working well. The font looks like the footprints of a demented pigeon on drugs but I hope to get used to it. It cannot be worse than my handwriting.
On 15 February 2015 at 15:16, Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net> wrote: > On 2015-02-15, John Kane wrote: > > > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: quoted-printable --] > > > I have run into an interesting attempt to reform English orthography > > (http://unspell.blogspot.ca/p/resources.html, bottom of page) and > thought > > I'd like to play with it. > > There is an associated font (http://unspell.blogspot.ca/p/resources.html > , > > bottom of page) that I have successfully downloaded and install in > Ubuntu. > > I can type with it in Apache OpenOffice, at least. > > How to I get it into LyX? > > What appears to be the relevant Wiki > > ( > http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ChangeFontUsingLatexhttp://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ChangeFontUsingLatex > ) > > says : If your preferred font is not in the list, set everything to > > "Default" in the font section and add to Document→Preamble something > like: > > \renewcommand{\familydefault}{pag} > > \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{pag} > > (the exact command is usually described in the documentation of the font > > package; please read that, there are considerable differences) > > However there does not appear to be any documentation whatsoever with the > > package. > > This is about 8-bit TeX fonts, that usually come with a LaTeX package to > use > them or some other description/examples for use with LaTeX. > > In your case, you should set > > [x] use non-TeX fonts > > (or whatever it is called nowadays) in Document>Settings>Fonts > and then select your font from the list. > > This will use XeTeX or LuaTeX for compilation - TeX-engines that can work > with Unicode-encoded system fonts. > > Remember, that in LyX the screen font and the document font will usually > differ: to change the screen font, use Tools>Settings. > > > Günter > > -- John Kane Kingston ON Canada
