On 7 aug 2007, at 23.10, Gerard Ateshian wrote:
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.
That bug was only for QT4.3 IIRC (the work around is that even if you
set the font to Times, the font actually used is Times New Roman),
see http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3684
According to QT's bug tracking system, it is scheduled for QT4.4, see:
http://trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?
method=entry&id=165609
- 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.
It's not only Word, but also other external programs, see http://
bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3307
If you have time (unfortunately I don't) and interest you could try
compiling with a QT snapshot (4.3.1 or 4.4) from:
http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/snapshots
and see if the issue with Italic fonts has been solved.
/Anders
