On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:08:43AM +0200, Thomas Templin wrote:
> 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 Thanks Thomas. Fonts are always a mystery in linux, especially when I have used a Macintosh my whole life. (In a Macintosh, you simply drag a font to a folder, and voila! You have the font available for printing and viewing.) On my linux box, I was able to get a much more readable font by tweaking the zoom and Screen DPI in the LyX -> Edit -> Preferences -> Screen Fonts. I am running Mandrake 8.1. My version of LyX is 1.1.6fix3. The font in the "Roman" box is times. Thanks Paul > > 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 -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* ************************
