Re: Recommended robust configuration for Chinese support

2013-04-28 Thread Hörmetjan Yiltiz
The recommendatios in this official wiki http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Chinese worked like magic (as it should have been) and a method described by yihui at yihui.name/cn also worked. But they both cannot build if using with apa style, saying unknown \uXXX uft8 char issues. What environment issues do I

Re: Recommended robust configuration for Chinese support

2013-04-28 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 3-4-2013 14:21, Hörmetjan Yiltiz schreef: Hi there! I am wring from Beijing, China. I found LyX very pleasing software, and used it myself for quite a long time, but still its support for writing Chinese is too frustrating, encountering some unknown bugs or failing to compile the pdf while

Re: Recommended robust configuration for Chinese support

2013-04-03 Thread Yihui Xie
As I said, the key is the font, so 1. The example ctex.lyx uses the "adobefonts" option (see Document=>Settings), which means you have to install Adobe Fangsong/Heiti/Kaiti/Song Std; note they are not free fonts. To use free fonts, you need to change this option to "nofonts", use non-TeX fonts and

Re: Recommended robust configuration for Chinese support

2013-04-03 Thread Hörmetjan Yiltiz
Thanks for your kind reply! Currently I am using Debian Wheezy, and should not I write some predefinitions in the documents configuration? Or choose some utf-8 stuff? 1. What else do I *have to* do apart from choosing ctex.lyx in order to get it run as fluent of possible? 2. Which packages should

Re: Recommended robust configuration for Chinese support

2013-04-03 Thread Yihui Xie
I submitted a template to LyX for ctex (in 2011?) and you should be able to see it from File=>New From Template, then ctex.lyx You did not tell us your OS; anyway, you can install the ctex package from either MikTeX under Windows, or Synaptic under Ubuntu. I think the only tricky part is the font

Re: Recommended robust configuration for Chinese support

2013-04-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2013-04-03, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: Dear Hörmetjan Yiltiz, > I found LyX very pleasing software, and used it myself for quite a long > time, but still its support for writing Chinese is too frustrating, > encountering some unknown bugs or failing to compile the pdf while directly > calling pdf

Recommended robust configuration for Chinese support

2013-04-03 Thread Hörmetjan Yiltiz
Hi there! I am wring from Beijing, China. I found LyX very pleasing software, and used it myself for quite a long time, but still its support for writing Chinese is too frustrating, encountering some unknown bugs or failing to compile the pdf while directly calling pdflatex from the shell could jus