On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because
> > of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever likely to
> > improve?
>
> what do you mean here ?
I wouldn't want to make assumptions about what Kathryn meant, but what _I_
would mean by being bad at fonts is:
1. You only get a few fonts pre-installed with your standard TeX/LaTeX
distribution (not necessarily a bad thing, though).
2. Although there are some very nice TeXable fonts out there, installing
them is about as intuitive as quantum physics.
3. Even if you actually manage to get a new font installed, LyX won't
recognise it.
As I've said before, a very nice feature/plugin for LyX would be a
font-installer. My dream would be something that would connect to my nearest
CTAN mirror, download the fonts I want, integrate them in my TeX system and
add them to the LyX "default font" popup.
Oh yes, and although I normally decry it as bad typesetting, occasionally it
would be nice to have more than one font in the same document.
Robin
