On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:06:19PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> Edwin Leuven wrote:
> > Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> >> Edwin Leuven wrote:
> >>> i have switched to svn for my daily work now (don't miss good old 
> >>> 1.4.3 for one second!!)
> >>>
> >>> however, i *strongly* suggest that we revert this patch:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/17639
> >>>
> >>> and get rid of the antialiasing in formulas for the following two 
> >>> reasons:
> >>>
> >>> 1. the result is actually not nice, but rather fuzzy
> >>>
> >>> 2. the mixing of antialiased text with non-antialiased text is really 
> >>> ugly
> >>
> >> What are you talking about? This commit was about antialiasing of 
> >> lines polylines and arcs that are used in symbols like brackets or 
> >> sqrt. Nothing to do with text.
> > 
> > s\text\elements\g
> > 
> > my point is; it is ugly (the result is not very nice) and also 
> > inconsistent:
> > 
> > when i enter ordinary parentheses they are not antialiased, when i enter 
> > the scaleable ones, they are.
> 
> Maybe you should turn on text antialiasing on your system...

I agree with Edwin that this is a bad hack and should be reverted.
If I choose to not do antialiasing, LyX should respect my wish. 

> > integrals are not antialiased, square roots are.
> > 
> > horizontal arrows: the stem is unantialiased, the arrow point is 
> > antialiased.
> > 
> > etc
> > 
> > i am sorry, but it looks like a mess...
> 
> We could make this optional I guess or enable it only if text 
> antialiasing is turned on otherwise. I think Qt can give use this 
> information.

It's an ugly hack and should be reverted, IMHO.

-- 
Enrico

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