On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 21:07 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > 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. > lyx is not tex. It uses a different command format. Coompare the table construction in tex to that in lyx. In some sense lyx is convertable into tex but it is not tex. > -- ======================================================================= The problem with the gtene pool is that there is no lifeguard. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list