Using new fonts

[shawn fitzgibbons]

I'd like to try some different fonts with LyX, but if I add them to the 
fonts directory (from my other Windows fonts directory), LyX doesn't 
know they are there. The reason is that the output from LyX looks bad. I 
mean there is something wrong with the way the font looks in the DVI or 
ps file. No one concerned about typesetting a document would bother to 
use LyX if this problem could not be solved. Doing a search online 
brings-up some obscure means of converting single font files and adding 
something to the Latex preamble, but there has to be an easier way.