Enrico Forestieri wrote: > That's strange. I see the same thing in Windows, Debian and Solaris. > It is independent of the fonts chosen for display.
Now I see that you meant \{ etc without \bigl. This is the same here. The reason is that \lbrace and \rbrace are recognized as a symbol of the cmsy font, and \{ and \} are drawn in the normal math font. > I attach here a LyX file and a png image showing how I see it on screen. > Also, unrecognized latex commands are shown in a red italic type. That is normal. Georg