Eric,
I follow your exact steps and everything looks fine on my screen. I
have also LyX 1.6.4.1, but my operating system is Snow Leopard
(10.6.1). I could suspect this is related to MacOS 10.4 unless you
have some special math fonts installed (I have only the standard
MacTeX).
I would suggest to forward this mail to the user group to see if there
are any 10.4 users that can confirm the behavior.
/Anders
On 2 nov 2009, at 17.56, Eric Clarkson wrote:
Anders,
I am running Mac OS X 10.4.11. I open a new document with LyX
version 1.6.4.1. I have the Math and Math Panels toolbars open at
the bottom of the window. I click on the Set Display mode button on
the Math toolbar and get the little blue outline display box for
math. I click on the Fonts button on the Math Panel toolbar and
select "bold". I type anything in the display box, say, the letter
"a". The letter "a" in bold appears in the display box. So far
everything is fine. Now I click the cursor outside the display box.
What normally happens at this point (on other versions of LyX and on
this version of LyX with other Font choices) is that the equation is
typeset and the little blue box disappears. What happens with the
Bold font is quite different. The typeset bold letter "a" appears
near the top of a large solid white box (the normal background,
which appears around the box, is beige). The width of the white box
is 8.25 inches. No matter how big I make the window, I have to
scroll down to find the bottom of the white box, so I don't know how
long it is. I can type normally above and below the white box. If I
click the cursor anywhere in the white box, it goes back to the
little blue outline display box. If I click the cursor outside the
display box, then the big white box appears again. If I use the view
menu and look at the PDF it looks normal, nothing unusual. I could
work around these big white boxes, but I use the Bold font a lot in
equations for vectors and matrices so this would be very annoying. I
have tried reinstalling LyX and restarting the computer to no avail.
Any assistance you could provide would be appreciated.
Eric Clarkson
On Oct 31, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote:
On 30 okt 2009, at 19.15, Eric Clarkson wrote:
10/30/09
Problem with LyX 1.6 on my Mac (Downloaded yesterday). If an
equation (in-line or display) has a mathbold character in it then,
when the cursor is moved out of the equation box, the equation is
displayed at the top of a very large white box. Nothing else
appears in the box and I have to scroll down to get out of the box
and see what follows the equation. This only happens with mathbold
characters, other special fonts do not create this effect.
Eric, I can't reproduce this. can you send a more elaborate step-by-
step description?
/Anders
