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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Installing a truetype font in LyX
From:       "Jacob Hunt" <jacob.r.hunt () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-10-18 16:00:54
Message-ID: d3b38bef0810180900j733d5c51u9b5421e013a0f230 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Charles de Miramon <cmiramon@kde-france.org
> wrote:

> Jacob Hunt wrote:
>
>
> > supposed to just download it and use it anyways?  Just didn't know if
> > there was a newer/better way to do this.
> >
>
> Yes. Use Xetex. See the wiki. But for Liberation fonts which are just
> copies
> with a nicer licence of very common fonts already accessible in LyX, it is
> a bit pointless.
>
> If you want to try the possibilities of XeTeX, install Acrobat Reader that
> comes with a copy of Minion in Otf format, copy the Minion font in a place
> where fontconfig can find it and then you can play with it in XeTeX.
>
> Minion is a very nice font from a gifted font designer but the Adobe otf
> file has some problematic kerning pairs.
>
> Cheers,
> Charles
> --
> http://www.kde-france.org
>
>
Charles,

Thanks for the pointers.  Which font(s) is the Liberation font a copy of
that already exists in LyX?  Although I am still going to learn to add fonts
to LyX.

Jacob


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