Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:16:51PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> > 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).
>
> This is _only_ for delimiters and accents.
>
> For "ordinary characters" like 'a', \mathbb{R}, \sum etc, either the X
> symbol font or suitable LaTeX fonts can be used. So saying "math fonts are
> ... basically being sloppily rendered line drawings" is a bit strong.
>
> > But the text fonts also are not good. Some sort of printer fonts (what
> > is it, Times or what?)
>
> It is whatever you have chosen. What do you think Edit->Preferences->
> ScreenFonts (incidently the very first tab when opening the preferences
> menu) is good for?
>
> > My Emacs source text buffers use 20x10 fixed fonts. That are fonts that
> > are actually designed for readability _at_ _screen_ _resolution_.
>
> So why don't you use them in LyX?
Just for a try, I replaced "times" in the font selection scheme with
"fixed". I now get a display with an array of wildly inconsistent
font sizes.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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