I haven't seen any replies cc'd to the list so I'm assuming nobody else
has gotten around to replying to you yet. Fonts and Maths aren't my area
but I will provide a few comments.
It's always encouraging for us to have offers such as yours arrive out of
the blue. So I'd encourage to read on and we can all benefit from your
work.
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Justin R. Smith wrote:
> I have modified release 1.0 (using cvs) to allow it to
> use Type 1 TeX fonts (from Blue Sky). It currently supports
> Blackboard Bold, Fraktur, and Euler Script.
>
> It is my intention to replace all of the math fonts in LyX
> with genuine TeX fonts (since they support all of the TeX mathematical symbols).
This is something that Alejandro had been planning for 1.1 and I doubt
very much that we'd want to make these mods in 1.0. That said I
certainly encourage you to port to lyx-1.1 and to make a few mods as
described below.
> My new version assumes that the type 1 TeX fonts are installed
> in '/usr/local/share/lyx/xfonts' --- I have modified LyX to
> cause the X server to put this in the font path. I haven't figured out
> how to make the install script copy the fonts there from the source directory,
> though.
I don't think is the way to do it. AFAIK, Alejandro wants to support
them if they are available and encourage users to install them but I don't
think we want to be distributing them as well.
Could you get lyx-1.1 from cvs (ie. lyx instead of lyx-1_0_x) and try
porting to it. There are likely to be changes to the font loader and
certainly a rewrite of most of Mathed also in 1.1 which may affect
yourmodifications.
Alejandro? Asger? any other comments?
> You can download the cvsmain for this work from
>
> http://vorpal.mcs.drexel.edu/research/newlyx.tar.gz
Could you make a patch available also?
Thanks,
Allan. (ARRae)
