[tex-live] LyX and cmr truetypes

[Reinhard Kotucha]

>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> writes:

  > Hi John, - LyX apparently uses fontconfig -

  > I don't get it.  How is TeX (no fontconfig there) supposed to
  > work?  Or does LyX no longer use TeX at all?  Well, whatever...

Lyx uses system fonts for the editor and runs (pdf)latex in the
background.  Hence, what you see is an approximation of what you get.

If you make Computer Modern available to X11, the approximation will
be better.  It's still an approximation but with CM you can have
SC+OSF in the editor, for instance.

  >     $TEXMFLOCAL/fonts/truetype/public/xft-fonts/?

  > I can't see any harm in doing that (good choice of path :), and I
  > suppose it's theoretically possible that some TL tool or another
  > might do something with truetype.

PdfTeX can use them.  But I don't see any good reason.  They are
derived from the Type1 fonts and their quality is certainly not
better.  And TL provides the Type1 fonts anyway.

I suppose that XeTeX will make all the TeX fonts available to X11. It
will use fontconfig.

I'm curious what happens if the CM fonts are accessible by X11 (and
thus by web browsers) and someone uses tex4ht to create an HTML file
typeset in cmr...

Regards,
  Reinhard

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