Newbie: LyX on OS X

[Daniel Lohmann]

Hey LyX folks,

I have been using LyX for years on Windows and Linux. Now I got my first 
Mac (running OS X 10.5.1) and one of the first things I installed on it 
was LyX - of course.

1) I installed TexShop 2.14 as TeX-distro. Is this the recommended LaTeX 
for OS X in conjunction with LyX?

2) I installed LyX 1.5.2. Works like a charm, however, there seem to be 
font rendering problems with the display fonts.

a) Whenever I change the screen fonts in the preferences (typeface, 
zoom, etc.) and press "Apply", the new font seems to be applied only 
partly. The spacing becomes strange, sometimes only every second or 
third word appears in the new font. I have to save the settings and 
restart LyX for the spacing to look "right". Is this a known problem?

b) In general the screen fonts look, well, ugly. There seems to go on 
some font smoothing that does not really work. The font-rendering is a 
lot better in LyX for Windows or Linux, as well as in all other OS X 
applications. I am using the Times, Helvetica, and Courier as screen 
fonts (the default).

Is this a known problem? I remember reading about font rendering 
problems on OS X in conjunction with math typesetting, however, in my 
case it is just plain text.

I would highly appreciate any recommendations. Maybe there is just a 
hidden setting somewhere in LyX or OS X? Or a recommended font and zoom 
level?


Thanks a lot!

Daniel