[XeTeX] xetex & lyx (latex)

[Jonathan Kew]

On 2 Nov 2006, at 3:47 pm, William Adams wrote:

> On Nov 2, 2006, at 2:19 PM, Gour wrote:
>
>> What about using 'old' TeX & Type1 fonts?
>
> There's some support for this, but I don't track it, since when
> that's needed for me, pdftex is usually a better choice.
>
>> I am also considering to buy Lucida fonts (from Tug.org) hoping
>> they can
>> be used with XeTEX too?
>
> Only if they can be used w/o requiring virtual fonts (which I think
> w/ LY1 encoding they can be).

I believe Gour is running on Linux, where the xetex output driver is  
xdvipdfmx; this should support virtual fonts.

(Mac OS X users can also use this driver, but it is not currently the  
default on this platform.)

JK