Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Georg Baum wrote:
Am Dienstag, 10. April 2007 18:17 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes:
I only now notice that the font was hardcoded in the .ui file. What
happens if you don't write any font in the .ui file?
I guess the desktop wide font setting is used.
I do think about the user: why do we need to force the user to use
the Bakoma fonts if he'd prefer to use another one? Arial, Times,
Lucida, all have proper math symbols support apparently.
Sorry, I don't get it: We should require a unicode font for the GUI
only to be able to offer an additional choice for math fonts?
No, as you found out later. Only the font used in the list view of the
delimiter dialog.
This is a restriction. It would not be a restriction if the choice
of an unicode GUI font would be optional. Of course it would be nice
to have the option to use a different font for math, but this should
be an option and not come with additional requirements.
Apart from that I doubt that you can find a font that covers all
needed symbols and looks good.
We could put this font definition in the "lyxrc.dist". There is this
"Math Symbols" font that looks good, maybe it is available on Linux/Unix?
On Windows, the installer could fix the lyxrc.dist by checking which
system is available.
AFAIS, "Arial" which is quite old and quite universally available
and also quite ugly. It is on virtually all windows computers, but
you will find a lot of unix/linux boxes that don't have it.
Really? I remember using it 10 years ago with LyX-0.something... I
personally like Arial (nobody's perfect :-)). But if what you say is
true, I reckon Times is even more widely available then...
Perhaps Arial is easily available - I do have a computer that doesn't have
it though. Never saw the need, and some linux distros don't install it
unless you ask for it.
Helge Hafting
