I've recompiled 1.5.1 with Qt 4.2.3 and here is what I find:
- The Times font shows up fine in Qt 4.2.3. It is not in sans-serif
typeface.
- Italics work properly in Qt 4.2.3 (but not in Qt 4.3.0).
- On my machine (PowerBook G4, PPC, 1.67 GHz, 1 GB rAM) I find no
speed penalty between Qt 4.2.3 and Qt 4.3.0, when paging through the
User's Guide (29 s for both).
- In relation to bug 3307: Copying from the Qt 4.2.3 version to Word
does not work. Copying from Qt 4.3.0 to Word works.
So, as far as I can tell, the basic trade-off between Qt 4.2.3 and Qt
4.3.0 is visualizing onscreen italic fonts correctly, versus ability
to copy to Word.
Gerard
On Aug 7, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Anders Ekberg wrote:
Bennett Helm
Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:22:27 -0700
On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Could it be the use of a different Qt version?
LyX-1.5.0rc2: Qt-4.3.0 (I didn't have rc1 to check)
LyX-1.5.0b2: Qt-4.2.3
What was the nice thing about using qt 4.3?
Abdel would know; I believe there were performance gains
especially on PPC Macs.
Bennett
I think two main reasons were speed and that it solved bug 3307
(which was really nasty...).
There was also a bug that made Times useless (showed as some sans-
serif typeface), so the font actually used is Times New Roman (if
that hasn't been reverted). In summary, there seems to be problems
with QT4.3 and fonts...
/Anders
