How do I prevent LyX from loading fontspec automatically?

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I would like to use non-TeX fonts in LyX. To do this, I use the Document->Setting->Use non-TeX fonts setting. This setting causes LyX to insert the \usepackage{fontspec} statement automatically into the preamble. However, I would like to load the fontspec with specific options. I have tried to do \usepackage[LY1,T1]{fontspec} for example. Even with this LyX still does \usepackage{fontspec} and I end up with two statements which both load fontspec in the preamble. I have tried using the command Provides fontspec 1 in the layout file in the hope that LyX would not load fontspec automatically. It still does. What is interesting is that LyX does the automatic package loading on a line that precedes the one on which I ask it to load fontspec with specified options.

Does somebody have an idea of how I could condition LyX to let me load fontspec with the required options without it loading fontspec automatically?

fontspec is a xelatex and lualatex specific package that does not work with latex or pdflatex and does not take options such as LY1 or T1 are you thinking of fontenc (which does take those options) ? — David Carlisle, Sep 08 '14 at 20:00
Thanks David for pointing out my confusion between fonspec and fontenc. I pledge my ignorance: I started using the two packages last week. I have mixed them up. How embarassing? But how could one manage to tell LyX not load a package if one wants to load that package with a specific set of options? Thanks, in advance. — user24098, Sep 08 '14 at 20:09
David's comment notwithstanding, the way to do this (with options corresponding to the package, of course) is with \PassOptionsToPackage{<options>}{<package>} before the package is loaded. This may be possible in LyX using "ERT"; just a matter of making sure this code comes before LyX loads the package in question. — Paul Gessler, Sep 08 '14 at 20:09
Thank you very much for your response Paul. Your suggestion is certainly a good avenue for me to explore and I think it should work. However, I have one problem, by the time we use "ERT" are we not past the \begin{document} line already (and not in the preamble)? — user24098, Sep 08 '14 at 20:16
Off-topic: if you want to use non-TeX fonts, you almost certainly do want to load fontspec and not to load fontenc. You can use LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX without fontspec but I can't think why you would wish to. — cfr, Sep 09 '14 at 00:05
For questions like these, a minimal example is usually helpful. Can you please post a small .lyx file showing the problem? Note that a .lyx file is just a text file so it is easy to post. — scottkosty, Sep 09 '14 at 00:35

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

For the specific case of fontenc, go to Document --> Settings --> Fonts, set LaTeX font encoding to Custom, and type whichever font encoding you wish in the input field.

In general, as in this answer to a similar question, to pass an option to a package you can put it in the document class options. This will pass those options to all packages, so it's dangerous in that if a different package you're loading also takes options with those names (and presumably different meanings!) it will also be passed them.

How do I prevent LyX from loading fontspec automatically?

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