On 9/30/05, Matei Zaharia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > LyX team has meanwhile released the version 1.3.6, in which the > > problem reported by you does not occur! > > Hmm, I'm actually using 1.3.6. Maybe I missed some extra installation > instructions. Specifically, here's what I did: > > - Installed LyX, using Cygwin's sh, perl and python and using miktex. > - Opened it up and tried to type some math. All the math symbols like > integral sign, sigma, greek letters, +- sign, etc were replaced by random > letters, so I figured I didn't have some math font. > - Googled for windows lyx fonts and found the 1.3.5 page which said to > download and install fonts from a certain zip file and also mentioned the > equal sign issue. > - Installed the fonts. Now the symbols were there, but I had issues with > pure vertical or pure horizontal bars disappearing at certain zoom levels. > It's not just in equal signs - I saw it in the +- sign, in greek letters, > etc. > - Googled for AMS fonts, and found the Mozilla ones. > > I also noticed since I sent the message to the mailing list that the Mozilla > fonts don't include some of the required symbols, like the blackboard fonts. > So since then I installed the ones in the 1.3.5 zip that were not installed > by Mozilla (it was the ones starting with m and w). I then saw that there > are still issues with horizontal bars not rendering on some symbols from > these fonts (e.g. the top and bottom of blackboard Z), but it's a lot better > than before. > > It might be because I'm using ClearType font smoothing. It doesn't happen > with Windows' normal font smoothing, but that looks very ugly. I think it > does happen with no smoothing enabled at all as well. Anyway it seems to be > a bug with the fonts or with the settings LyX is using to render them.
I think you should have a look at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 In particular, pay attention to the section Math fonts. Paul
