Re: [patch] initial XeTeX support

2009-04-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Guenter Milde wrote: > Many fonts are set up in both texmf and "system". > E.g. I do have > DejaVu/Bera, Latin Modern, Libertine configured for use with TeX/LyX and as > System font. These are not the same fonts (even if it is the same type family). And XeTeX has a completely different font infr

Re: [patch] initial XeTeX support

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> As long as one does not want the more advanced features (additional >> fonts, XeTeX specifics or incompatible packages), it might be simpler to >> keep the choice (as currently LaTeX/dvips/ps2pdf vs. LaTeX/dvipdfm vs. >> PdfLaTeX) s

Re: [patch] initial XeTeX support

2009-04-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Guenter Milde wrote: > As long as one does not want the more advanced features (additional > fonts, XeTeX specifics or incompatible packages), it might be simpler to > keep the choice (as currently LaTeX/dvips/ps2pdf vs. LaTeX/dvipdfm vs. > PdfLaTeX) so that without going into Document>Settings I c

Re: [patch] initial XeTeX support

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-05, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Attached is what I have done to start XeTeX support in LyX. Thanks for this. > * provide a simple checkbox "use XeTeX" in Document>Settings > * if this is selected, ... > - provide the proper output and export formats (i.e., only "PDF >

Re: [patch] initial XeTeX support

2009-04-05 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
José Matos wrote: > > I think XeTeX supports would be a very nice addition to LyX. Especially > > now that we have so many unicode users. > > > > I say put it in, I am sure there would be many people testing this and > > polishing/requesting features :-) > > I agree. :-) OK, done. I do some furthe

Re: [patch] initial XeTeX support

2009-04-05 Thread José Matos
On Sunday 05 April 2009 20:02:53 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > I think XeTeX supports would be a very nice addition to LyX. Especially > now that we have so many unicode users. > > I say put it in, I am sure there would be many people testing this and > polishing/requesting features :-) I agree. :-)

Re: [patch] initial XeTeX support

2009-04-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 05/04/2009 17:57, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Since I do not use (nor intend to use) XeTeX myself (and consequently, I am only superficially familiar with XeTeX) and since my time is limited, I propose to put this to trunk, provided that someone volunteers to test and polish the feature. XeTeX i