Do you have the latex-xft-fonts package installed? I had a very similar issue, and installing this package has solved it.
HTH, Daniel CLEMENT > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of pol > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:29 AM > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Subject: symbols rendering > > > On the linux/kubuntu laptop of a friend of mine, some latex symbols (e.g, > \pm, \alpha, etc) are not rendered in lyx, although they correctly printed > out to pdf. > > Any ideas about what is wrong in the Lyx or X configuration? > > Thank you > > -- > Pol > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------- > Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. > Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. > >