Guenter Milde wrote:
> Dear Neal,
>
> thank you for the report.
>
> On 2017-01-19, Neal Becker wrote:
>> Neal Becker wrote:
>
>>> http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/fonts/newtx/doc/newtxdoc.pdf
>
>>> The package invoked by
>>> \usepackage{newtxmath}
>>> loads the math part of the txfonts (with revised metrics and additional
>>> glyphs) and should be loaded after
>>> the text font and its encoding have been specified, as it uses the text
>>> font settings to define how operators,
>>> numbers, math accents, \mathrm, \mathbf etc. are rendered
>
>>> But if I select
>>> document/settings/fonts/Math: Times Roman (New TX)
>
>>> Generated TeX says:
>>> \documentclass[american,journal,comsoc]{IEEEtran}
>>> \usepackage{amsmath}
>>> \usepackage{newtxmath}
>>> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>>> \usepackage[latin9]{luainputenc}
>
>
>>> Is this OK?
>
> Leaving both "font encoding" and "Serif font" at "Default" leads to
> suboptimal fonts beeing used (fontenc becomes T1 and the default Computer
> Modern fonts are substituted by bitmap EC (or, if installed CM-Super).
What settings do you recommend?
>
> Adding Times math fonts to this mix makes matters worse.
>
> Why do you compile with LuaTeX when using 8-bit fonts? (This is not
> necessarily evil but I am curious.)
>
Just because LuaTeX is the latest thing - don't actually need any of it's
features.
>>> Does \usepackage{newtxmath} need to be moved later in the
>>> preamble?
>
> May be, you can try by leaving the GUI math-package setting at default and
> inserting \usepackage{newtxmath} in the user preamble. Please report
> differences, if found.
>
I haven't really seen any differences but maybe I don't know what to look
for.
>
>> Similarly, this advice seems to be violated:
>> "If you use the babel package, you should load it before newtxtext—for
>> example:"...
>
> OTOH, babel itself advises to be loaded last. (The Greek babel
> definitions, e.g., analyse the fontencoding setup for proper working.)
>
> Again, this may be changed if we have evidence of problems or improvements
> with either order.
>
> Günter
