On Thursday 10 October 2002 05:35, Paul Tremblay wrote: > The appearance of my font in LyX looks like crumbled cookes. It > is hard to make out an exclamation point. > > I searched through the LyX archives, and found that your screen > font is determined by the Lyxrc file. I also found that I could > get font info if I ran 'lyx -dbg font'. I did this, and this is > my output: > > lyx -dbg font > Setting debug level to font > Debugging `font' (Font handling) > Find a free buffer. > Using scalable font to get > -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 *-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 should work, "urw" will only use fonts by urw foundry > Font 'Roman, Medium, Upright, Normal, Language: English' matched > by -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 > LyX: X11 color linen allocated for background > LyX: X11 color grey40 allocated for bottom area > LyX: X11 color black allocated for cursor > LyX: X11 color black allocated for text > > Let me also add that other applications on my linux box look > fine. For example, vim and KDE Word both appear fine. Abiword, > however, looks just like LyX--it has that crumbled cookie look. > > How do I add a nice font to my lyxrc file to get the screen font > to look readable? [...] Which GNU/Linux distribution? Debian, RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake...? May be you don't install all needet fonts. Your problem with Abiword fonts seems to have the same reason. Which LyX Version? Try to use an other Font with: LyX -> Edit -> Preferences -> Screen Fonts and enter a installed font for Roman, Sans Serif and Typewriter, eg: -*-times -*-helvetica -*-courier Encoding seems to be ok, iso8859-1 xfontsel will give you a hint which fonts are installed.
Bye, Thomas
