How to change the font size in LyX?
Go to Document→Settings→Fonts. You can select from a (hard-coded) list different fonts for Roman (Serif), Sans Serif and Monospaced (Typewriter). The list of font sizes can be extended by choosing another document class (i.g. Document -> Settings -> Document Class, choose “article (more font sizes)” in Document class field)
How do I change the font size in Tex?
To change the sizes globally for all your documents, make a new size*.clo file (the size*.clo files can be found in the texmf/latex/base/ folder of your TeX installation; they define the font sizes for a specific default size, e.g. size12.clo defines the sizes in documents that use 12pt default size).
What is the philosophy of the LyX toolbar?
The LyX philosophy is to encourage semantic markup. This is why the “semantic” elements are put prominently on the LyX toolbar. Of course, the idea would be to have much more of such semantic elements. However, they have not yet been implemented in a proper way. Some elements are provided as “character styles” which can be accessed via “modules”.
What kind of font should I use to typeset units?
Setting the font: many guidelines call for units to be in upright roman font with no bold or italic variation. Many packages have been written to address one or other aspect of this question.
How to enable old style numbers in LyX?
First, your font needs to include old-style numbers. To enable them for the whole document, select “Use Old Style Figures” in Document→Settings→Fonts (if this is greyed out, the selected font probably doesn’t provide old style numbers). To enable them only for certain figures in the document, use ERT:
What’s the best way to use Beamer in LyX?
The Beamer user guide also offers a tip for using a dark/light alternating background color in the rows of the table. To use it in LyX, add table to Document > Settings > Document Class > Class options > Custom and something like owcolors [] {1} {blue!20} {blue!10} in the preamble.
How do you change the Index in Beamer?
Insert the label you want for the first item there. Beamer will automatically replace any occurrence of 1, i or I with the index of each item in Arabic, lower or upper case Roman numerals respectively.
What’s the default font for latex in LyX?
By default, LyX sets font to be Times New Roman in the article class. When I print my document it looks different than most other latex documents which seem to be using a different font.
How can I change the language of LyX?
Start LyX & run Tools/Reconfigure to make sure it takes note of your CJK LaTeX support. After closing LyX and re-starting in a clean document, a few changes are needed. In Document/Settings/Language, change the language to Chinese (simplified, in my case) and change encoding to Unicode CJK (utf8).