truetype fonts in tetex, pdftex, pdflatex

[Ian Malone]

On 17/02/2008, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/02/2008, François Patte <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
>
> > Le 17.02.2008 18:35, Ian Malone a écrit :
> > | Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > |
> > |> I have the development repo TeXLive installed in F8 and it seems to work
> > |> well so far (though I haven't stressed it heavily yet).
> > |>
>
> > | Thanks for the suggestions.  Does microtype work in texlive?
>
> > microtype with which options? For I have no problem under tetex-f8.
> >
>
> 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).

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imalone