Re: Lyx 1.4cvs bad default sans serif screen font

2005-03-22 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:43:15AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > Lyx ask for a font, and qt doesn't tell if it isn't there, just returns > the first in the list? Ouch. A qt bug then. Qt will actually lie and pretend a font is something other than it actually is. john

Re: Lyx 1.4cvs bad default sans serif screen font

2005-03-16 Thread Georg Baum
Helge Hafting wrote: > Lyx ask for a font, and qt doesn't tell if it isn't there, just returns > the first in the list? It is something like that if I am not mistaken. > Ouch. A qt bug then. That's what John tried to tell trolltech, but he was not successful :-( Georg

Re: Lyx 1.4cvs bad default sans serif screen font

2005-03-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Georg Baum wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: A local setup problem then. I understand that when all else fails, lyx just have to pick some font. Still, when such a last-ditch measure is used, lyx could pop up the settings dialog so the user may pick something better immediately instead of getting "s

Re: Lyx 1.4cvs bad default sans serif screen font

2005-03-16 Thread Georg Baum
Helge Hafting wrote: > A local setup problem then. I understand that when all else > fails, lyx just have to pick some font. Still, when such a last-ditch > measure is used, lyx could pop up the settings dialog so > the user may pick something better immediately instead of > getting "splash.lyx"

Re: Lyx 1.4cvs bad default sans serif screen font

2005-03-16 Thread Helge Hafting
John Levon wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:32:23AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Sans serif: Abandoned Bitplane (ouch) It looks like lyx simply used the first font in the fontlist, Not really, it's a bit more complicated than that. Unfortunately Qt makes this REALLY hard. You'd need to inve

Re: Lyx 1.4cvs bad default sans serif screen font

2005-03-14 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:32:23AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > Sans serif: Abandoned Bitplane (ouch) > > It looks like lyx simply used the first font in the fontlist, Not really, it's a bit more complicated than that. Unfortunately Qt makes this REALLY hard. You'd need to investigate the code

Lyx 1.4cvs bad default sans serif screen font

2005-03-14 Thread Helge Hafting
I get these default screen fonts with lyx-1.4cvs qt: Roman: serif (ok) Sans serif: Abandoned Bitplane (ouch) Typewriter: Monospace (ok) I have plenty of fonts installed, so this particularly bad font is avoidable. (The font is ok for special effects, it is unuseable in normal text. Just try looki