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(1) I configured LyX for XeTeX and it works if I don't use any custom fonts. When I try to include \fontspec{Chaparral Pro} to use the custom font, I get an error. I realized this is because LyX adds the line \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} .. There is no way I can get this line to be removed. I ...

I think XeLaTeX is the better way to go. It uses fonts of the operating system. So install the desired fonts on your system and take a look at the manuals of XeLaTeX related packages like xltxtra , xunicode , fontspec and mathspec .


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

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Hello,

I'm writing my masters thesis on LyX, using XeTeX for TeXLive, on Ubuntu.
For the first time I'd like to use my own fonts, which are OpenType fonts from Adobe. They are already installed on my system and in texmf. I have two problems.

(1) I configured LyX for XeTeX and it works if I don't ...

Hello,

I hope this is the right place for this. I run TeXLive on Linux (namely Ubuntu 10.4), and I would like to use some of Adobe's OpenType fonts in my LaTeX documents. I've looked around online but all the guides are very complicated, and I know little about fonts. Could someone please help me ...