David Kastrup wrote:
> Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 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.
>
> LaTeX fonts? How?
You should have a directory
/usr/local/share/lyx-1.2.1cvs/xfonts
or such like (depends how you installed LyX). It contains a bunch of
symbolic links to the fonts that the math editor can use.
aleem@pneumon:aleem-> ls /usr/local/share/lyx-1.2.1cvs/xfonts
cmex10.pfb@ cmr10.pfb@ eufm10.pfb@ fonts.scale msbm10.pfb@
cmmi10.pfb@ cmsy10.pfb@ fonts.dir msam10.pfb@
All /you/ have to do is tell X where to find this directory. I have this in
my .xsession file:
#
# Some fonts for LyX
#
lyxmathfontsdir=/usr/local/share/lyx-1.2.1cvs/xfonts
if [ -d $lyxmathfontsdir ]; then
xset q | grep $lyxmathfontsdir
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
# directory is not already in the font path
# so add it:
xset +fp $lyxmathfontsdir; xset fp rehash
fi
fi
Best regards,
Angus
