William R. Buckley schrieb:
For instance, consider the attached paper, which includes
many different fonts.
I should add that this paper has been published.
This is no excuse ;-), I have read books, written in Word and directly
published.
One font is not always a desirable condition.
> Again, see the attached paper. Four different fonts are used in
> the construction of the paper: Arial, Times New Roman, Lucida
> Bright Math Symbol, and a Swiss 721 font.
But you also get the same, when you set in the document settings to use Arial for sansserif, Times
New Roman for roman, and Lucida Console for typewriter. The character dialog offers to you to set
the characters to one these three font shapes and in fact you get up to three different font in your
document. The number of fonts depend on what you have set in the document settings for the fonts.
Also in LyX a different special math font is used.
When you look at the PDF document properties of the compiled UserGuide, you can see that behind the
scenes even 37! different font files were used and embedded to the PDF.
If you really need a different font handling, LaTeX of course also supports this, but this is not
supported by LyX. I refer to
http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/
LaTeX can do anything with text you can imagine of and with LyX you have access to this, if
something is not supported by LyX, you can always use ERT to call LaTeX commands directly.
I take all of the diatribe personally and, don't tell me how I should
react to the words and actions of others. In this regard, you are
rude.
What are you talking about? Nobody has sent you a diatribe, but you often wrote that you've been
treated rude, but I never did. Of course people have different opinions and a discussion is the way
to come to a conclusion.
I answered to my best knowledge about fonts, so why is this rude? My question how the reader should
distinguish between the different fonts was not a joke, it really interest me.
It seems to me that you quickly loose the contenance and wonder why the people
on the mailing list
reply rude to you. I had the feeling that you are forced to switch from Ventura
but don't want this.
This is not our problem, its yours, so either accept how LaTeX works as we cannot change it - LyX is
just the frontend to LaTeX, or use another system.
Uwe
