OpenSuse do not seem to offer something called latex-xft, but I think
the latex-xft contains the Bakomo fonts? In anycase, my system has the
Bakomo fonts installed (as I understand this is what one needs for
math symbol rendering in edit mode)- so I am assuming that OpenSuse
packages the contents of latex-xft differently.
I reinstalled LyX and latex. The problem remains. However I now
realise the problem only manifests at certain preferences-screen_fonts
zoom, dpi and font size combinations. When the fonts are the most
pleasing to my eye the math symbols do not display properly. For
combinations of zoom, dpi and font size which give larger fonts the
math symbols render perfectly (but then I have to edit with fonts that
appear to be in bold face).
I suspect that the problem might be too tricky to track down, it might
be due to some interaction between my screen resolution and lyx and
not just a "simple" matter of having the right fonts installed.
Steve.
rgheck wrote:
On 08/14/2009 08:47 AM, Steven Higgins wrote:
thank you for your suggestion, if by
"Does the suggestion for KDE 3.1 at the bottom of
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Qt help? "
you meant the suggestion to try
./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt
This suggestion led led me to expect to find a bash script under
/usr/share/lyx called configure. I find only a configure.py which does
not recognise the options listed above. Simply calling ./configure.py
does not resolve the problem
He meant compiling LyX yourself, and configuring with the mentioned options.
The --with-frontend option is obsolete, though, and it doesn't
seem to me as if this is really your problem.
Sorry 'bout that. I'm an academic, so I deal mainly in obsolete information. ;-)
I don't know much about opensuse, but I just looked in the package
manager for my Ubuntu box, and it shows latex-xft-fonts installed
(from Canonical's repository, not from a LyX download). You might look
for a package of the same name (in whatever package manager opensuse
uses -- RPM?) and, if not present, see if you can track down and
install it.
