On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 1:03 AM, Barnet Wagman <bdw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, in 'Tool -> Preferences -> Look & Feel -> Screen Fonts' I've tried all
> the serif faces that I've got: the all have the same problem.
>
> I believe I've read that LyX (actually TeX) uses bit mapped fonts by
> default. It wasn't clear how to get non-bitmapped fonts.
>
No, this isn't TeX related. This seems to affect strictly the display in LyX.
What you're describing seems to be related to aliasing/hinting. What
OS / DE are you using?
Liviu
>
> On 07/04/2016 03:26 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Barnet Wagman <bdw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Monitor resolution: 1920 x 1080 (not HiDPI)
>>>
>>> Here are links to screenshots (files on google drive)
>>>
>>> eg 0 zoom=150% (default)
>>>
>>> eg 1 zoom=125%
>>>
>>> eg 2 zoom=100%
>>>
>>> eg 3 zoom=75%
>>>
>>> The "zoom" refers to zoom specification in Tool -> Preferences -> Look &
>>> Feel -> Screen Fonts. 150% was the initial value.
>>>
>>> Note that e.g going from 150% to 125%, the darkness of letters becomes
>>> uneven.
>>>
>> Have you tried changing the display font? See Tools > Prefs > Screen
>> fonts.
>>
>> Liviu
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/04/2016 05:15 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 8:20 AM, bdw <bdw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On a new, vanilla LyX installation (version 2.2.0-1), all the 'Help'
>>> documents (Introduction, Tutorial, etc.) are displayed with very large
>>> fonts. However, if I zoom to correct this ('alt -' on my system), the
>>> quality of the font degrades badly. Going in the other direction does
>>> NOT
>>> effect the quality.
>>>
>>> What resolution, and is it HiDPI? Please provide a screenhot (before
>>> and after the problem).
>>>
>>> Liviu
>>>
>>>
>>> I've tried changing various fonts (using Tools -> Preferences -> Look &
>>> Feel
>>> -> Screen Fonts) and get the same effect for all the fonts I've tried. I
>>> also note that in the preferences, the default zoom is 150%, which seems
>>> odd.
>>>
>>> I wonder if the problem has to do with the font's being used. I've
>>> looked
>>> through the LyX documentation, but it's not clear how to use
>>> non-bitmapped
>>> fonts in Tools->Preferences-> ... -> Screen Fonts. I haven't found any
>>> reference to this problem in the LyX documentation, LyX mailing lists, or
>>> anywhere else
>>>
>>> FYI I'm running on Arch Linux. I tried installing texlive. That had no
>>> apparent effect, although I it's not clear whether LyX detects it
>>> automatically, of if I have to do something.
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate any thoughts on how to fix this. I really can't proceed
>>> to
>>> learn and use LyX if I can't fix this.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>
