Thanks Uwe for the help. I installed the fonts manually, and now it looks much better.
However... The \spadesuit is displayed as a box. Hearts, clubs and diamonds display correctly. (Coincidentally I am writing something about a game of cards...) Regards, Peter Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Hegt Uwe Stoehr wrote: >Peter Hegt wrote: > >> Some math glyphs are displayed incorrect on screen; however the output >> dvi,pdf is ok. >> >> 3. Use math pannel to insert any operator, e.g. if I click the button >> with the plus-minus (\pm), on screen I get the paragraph glyph. Or >> \cup results in '['. > >You didn't install the math fonts. They are automatically installed when you use this installer: > >http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller > >You can also install them manually: > >ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX-1.0.zip > >Don't forget to reconfigure LyX after this. > >regards Uwe