Ok, I made some progress: Changing the font family to pslatex for the whole document made the ugly number problem go away, it looks nice now. I still need to fix the table vertical lines.
The missing table vertical lines appear and disappear with the magnification in pdf. I think that I need to make them thicker. Why would vertical rules be bad ? My tables represent the cells in a display and keys on a keyboard. Maybe I will replace them with a PS drawing each. Where would I put the commands you suggested for the thickness ? In the preamble of lyx ? of exported latex ? Is there a way to edit this into a lyx file directly ? I put them in a file which I include in the lyx file for now. It does not do what I want it to do. By looking with magnification at the table vertical and horizontal lines I can see some are thicker and some are thinner. This only appears in pdf. Is this some sort of fractional truncation error ? Maybe the table borders are drawn twice ? The Extended.lyx did not help but Customization.lyx did. thanks, Peter On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Dekel Tsur wrote: *>On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:55:00PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote: *>> *>> My problem seems to be that I need to upgrade my whole system. According *>> to: *>> *>> http://dionysos.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~joeckel/pdflatex/ *>> *>> (which gives excellent instruction), I need gs &friends 6.1 or above, I *>> have 5.1. I will upgrade this now. Please disregard the other posts *> *>If you use pdflatex, you don't need to upgrade gs. *>Read Extended.lyx to know what happens with fonts (basically, you need to *>select the ae fonts in the document dialog, or disable T1 font encoding *> *>> meanwhile. Anyway if anyone knows what causes the vertical bars in a table *>> to act strange in pdf, please say so. (they look good in dvi and ps). *> *>This is perhaps due to your old pdflatex. *>You can try increasing the width of the rules by adding *> \setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{0.5pt} *>to the preamble (default width is 0.4pt), or even better, remove the *>vertical rules in your tables (it is a bad style to have vertical rules!). *> *>
