> > Oops, sorry, F8 works okay. I've been messing about with > > TeX so much this weekend that I forgot what I'd tried on which > > machine. > > > > Thanks again to you both for your advice. > > > > It seems I wasn't entirely wrong; this happens when you use LyX, > as it includes a \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} which messes up font > expansion. The work-around appears to be avoiding cm (using > super-cm, cm-lgc or another font such as lmodern). > I had installed the TexLive testing version and it processed many documents correctly, but I uninstalled it after several LyX documents failed. Can you tell me what you mean about avoiding "cm"? How? What do you mean? What is super-cm? I've sometimes inserted this in the preamble because it is supposed to avoid the "bad fonts in pdf output" \usepackage{lmodern} But this did not change the weird output I was getting from TexLive. PJ -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list