Jommelli Niccolò wrote: > I have been trying quite a lot setting up Lyx to work with Japanese > (specifically the Hiragino Mincho otf) and a font with lots of diacritics > (specifically Times Extended ttf), but I haven't yet been able to do it. > I used both Ubuntu and Windows, MiKtex, Texlive and pTex, but there is > always some problem or something missing or some encoding error. I have > also tried converting the fonts and making tfm but to no avail. I have > followed almost all the tutorials online. Although I was very enthusiastic > about the whole Lyx and latex thing, I am now beginning to hate it. > I hope someone can help me with some clear instructions in order to use the > two fonts above mentioned and make a pdf file out of the lyx one. > Thank you in advance.
Did you already try the XeTeX approach? This seems to be the most reasonable one if you rely on OTF and TTF fonts: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX LyX's XeTeX support is very limited (the next major release will introduce some better support, though). Jürgen