* Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-07-31 16:25 +0200: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Andre Berger wrote: > > >German Gurus told me the palatino, times, and pslatex fonts were obsolete, > >and told me to use mathpazo and mathptmx instead. I wonder if LyX will > >reflect this development? > > Andre, > > I certainly hope not! I like Palatino. It's the default font in all my > writing and what I used in my book. Why would I want to use math fonts for > body text instead of Palatino or Times?
Hi Rich, Palatino is my favorite font as well. -- PSNFSS is an effort to make the 35 'base' PostScript fonts, among them Palatino and Times, compatible to the LaTeX NFSS2 font scheme, to get "purer interpretations" of these fonts, so to speak. At least that's how I understand <ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:21/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss/psnfss2e.pdf>, but I sure am no font expert! I couldn't see any difference between \usepackage{palatino} and the recommended \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage[sc,osf]{mathpazo}%palatino \usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet} \usepackage{courier} in "normal text" printouts, can you? If not, it would be an argument for the switch, since math is supposed to look better at he same time, and the new font scheme is part of recent LaTeX distributions (for example, teTeX 3.0) anyway. Maybe one could just make them available in the document layout font menu, for a start :) -Andre
