On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:16:51PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > "It must be noted that LyX screen display in particular in the math > > area does not seem to be optimized for readability." > > > > What does this mean ? > > The default fonts on my system look like junk. Sorry, that's how it > is. In particular, the math fonts plainly are awful (basically being > sloppily rendered line drawings). But the text fonts also are not > good. Some sort of printer fonts (what is it, Times or what?) > rendered at screen resolution without antialiasing does not cut it for > readability. Even with antialiasing, printer fonts at 100dpi would > not be too ergonomic (substituting a washed-out display of > well-rendered characters for a crisp display of badly rendered > characters), but at least more tolerable (take a look at TeXmacs > screenshots).
It takes less than a minute to change the fonts to something better. You can select any font you like, and the QT frontend development version even gives you anti-aliasing: http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/lyx/qt.png > > LyX can be configured to show the text on screen with ragged right > > alignment, without an impact on the latex output. > > Good. I'll find out how, now that I am told. Will the casual user > find this out easily? It depends how careful he read the documentation.
