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We were finally able to get the third machine to compile after removing and reinstalling the entire Lyx/MiKTeX installation twice.

We were tangentially helped by a mention in the thread " XeLaTeX won't compile after upgrading to MiKTeX 2.9" in this forum.

Cheers all,
EFR

I have read them. I can't make head or tail of them.

"Using the tex-text mapping is also equivalent to writing Ligatures=TeX. The use of
the latter syntax is recommended for better compatibility with LuaTEX documents."

Much the wiser!

EFR

Answering myself again for future reference:

- Some of these options (e.g. Letters) apply only to OpenType fonts which apparently Garamond, my trial example, is not.

- The key Letters=Uppercase, even if applied to an OpenType font, apparently does not put anything into Uppercase. The ...

Hello again to the forum,

I'm still investigating the compilation problem with XeTeX on our production machine.

In all the preambles of the Lyx source files, I have blindly included the lines:
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphics}
\usepackage[cm-default]{fontspec ...

Replying to myself:
Today the line of code that did not work in yesterday's post:
\newfontface\labelfont[Color=blue]{Garamond}
mysteriously works. Nothing else has changed, so I'm baffled as to why.

OTOH, the Letters option still has no effect, i.e.:
\newfontface\labelfont[Color=orange,Letters ...

Hello,

I have another mystery at my firm since trying to move to using XeTeX rather than the standard PDFLaTeX with Lyx.

The reason I need XeTeX is that my firm wants to use the Calibri Opentype font in its technical documentation.

I have modified the custom class used to generate our document ...

I'm trying to get to grips with the Fontspec package to create some custom fonts. I'm finding the documentation extremely hard to understand and the examples provided don't seem to work for me. I'm using Lyx and compiling with XeTeX.

So: I want to create a special typeface to quote interface labels ...

Answering myself again:

I've got something approximating what I want by adding the following in my Local Layout:
Format 35
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[book]{mybook}

Input stdclass.inc

Preamble
\newenvironment{ProcTitle}{%
\topskip 10in ...

Hello,

I am using a layout based on the Article class. It is missing a paragraph style (environment) that I really need.

This would be an environment similar to the ones called Paragraph or Subparagraph. It would appear in the bookmarks, but unnumbered and at any point in the hierarchy. It would ...

Thanks Scott, for that mini-buffer tip. In fact, the flex-insert command worked correctly, but I was not respecting case-sensitivity. My commands were called MenuItem and Code, not menuitem and code. So now all is well and I will have to apply myself to figuring out how to use the LFUNS.