Benjamin Piwowarski wrote:
> On the LyX-qt4/OSX build (OS X 10.9),
>
> - maths symbols with codes 0x0009 and 0x00ad are not displayed.
> - The first line is a b
Thanks, so we do not need to care for 169.
> One question: why not switching to Stix for the symbols that cause a
> problem and in 2.2 switch all the other symbols? Even if this not look
> perfect, at least it is a workaround going in the right direction.
The problem is that this is not so easy: Our math font machinery does not
contain these fonts, and adding new fonts in such a way that they are found
by Qt has always been difficult in the past. I tried it, and although I have
them installed systemwide, I cannot use them (LyX crashes somewhere in qt).
However, you got me thinking, and a rather ugly (but working) hack is
attached: we can simply let qt choose a font that has the correct glyph.
This won't look consistent on screen, but it is almost no code, and does not
affect platforms which do not have the bug, and users can even disable the
ugly bug fix without recompiling if they want.
What is better? This hack or the one which requires modifying the fonts? I
think we have to fix this problem to avoid a regression on OS X.
Georg
diff --git a/lib/symbols b/lib/symbols
index 9f33433..672c6d8 100644
--- a/lib/symbols
+++ b/lib/symbols
@@ -261,7 +261,11 @@ Sigma cmr 167 83 mathalpha Σ
Upsilon cmr 168 161 mathalpha ϒ
Phi cmr 169 70 mathalpha Φ
Psi cmr 170 89 mathalpha Ψ
+ifbug7954
+Omega mathrm 2617 87 mathalpha Ω
+else
Omega cmr 173 87 mathalpha Ω
+endif
aleph cmsy 64 192 mathord ℵ
imath cmm 123 0 mathord ı
jmath cmm 124 0 mathord ȷ
diff --git a/src/mathed/MathFactory.cpp b/src/mathed/MathFactory.cpp
index 151771d..2779619 100644
--- a/src/mathed/MathFactory.cpp
+++ b/src/mathed/MathFactory.cpp
@@ -137,6 +137,13 @@ void initSymbols()
docstring t = from_utf8(tmp);
skip = !isMathFontAvailable(t);
continue;
+ } else if (line.size() >= 9 && line.substr(0, 9) == "ifbug7954") {
+#ifdef USE_MACOSX_PACKAGING
+ skip = false;
+#else
+ skip = true;
+#endif
+ continue;
} else if (line.size() >= 4 && line.substr(0, 4) == "else") {
skip = !skip;
continue;
