Nirmal Govind wrote: > Juergen, did you mean better quality in printed output or on-screen > using Acro reader??
The glyphs are better. ae is, as far as I understand it, a kind of a "patchwork". It uses some type1 glyphs (from different sources) but also bitmap fonts, if type1 glyphs are not available. cm-super and latin modern have been designed as "consistent" font family, the glyphs really match together, thus the better (typographic) quality. Latin modern has (apparently) even been approved by Don Knuth and Hermann Zapf. > I installed both latin modern and cm-super. Here's what I see: > > 1. Using latin modern font (i.e., w/ usepackage lmodern, fontenc with > option T1 and textcomp) and the font option in Lyx set to default with > size 11, I get on-screen output (viewed in Acro reader) where the > regular 11pt text is really light whereas the italic/emphasized text is > pretty dark, the math is dark and the table lines etc are dark.. any > idea why the default 11pt font is light? No idea. For me, they look o.k. (but the decision between lmodern and cm-super is also a matter of taste). I like lmodern, because the package is much smaller and it is easy to install. But as I said, it is still in beta state and thus, there are still some minor glitches. cm-super is huge, but has more glyphs for non-latin languages. Also I think that a pdf can be searched in acroread only with lmodern. Jürgen.
