shawn fitzgibbons wrote:
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 LyX fonts directory is for display fonts (fonts LyX uses in the GUI), not for fonts in your printed document.
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.
What fonts are you using in your documents? I routinely use ae (or pslatex if I'm generating PDF output), and they look fine to me. Document->Settings...->Text Layout->Document Font->Font gives me eight fonts from which to choose.
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.
Pending the next release, if you want a font other than the ones listed in the settings dialog, I'm afraid you'll have to use ERT to load them.
/Paul
