Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:16:00AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes John> wrote: >> I see this particular problem, and I am on a system where >> fontconfig is _not_ used. We should make sure that this one works >> too... John> Then Dekel's c

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:16:00AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I see this particular problem, and I am on a system where fontconfig > is _not_ used. We should make sure that this one works too... Then Dekel's changes to lib/symbols must have been broken, or there is some other fault. Eit

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:14:21PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes John> wrote: >> John, something that looks suspiscious is that >> qfont_loader.C:addFontPath() does not return a success value, so it >> is difficult to assess whether we hav

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 07:00:07PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Simply put: they do not work properly with fontconfig. > > Is there some explanation why Qt/fonconfig does not use the font path as > all the other children do? It does, but it does not read or handle the fonts properly. john

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-27 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:54:24PM +, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:39:42PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > > > A) The problem: why can't Qt use Type 1 CM fonts? Why do you need Truetype > >fonts? > > Simply put: they do not work properly with fontconfig. Is there som

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:39:42PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > A) The problem: why can't Qt use Type 1 CM fonts? Why do you need Truetype >fonts? Simply put: they do not work properly with fontconfig. > B) The solution: What is fontconfig? It doesn't show up when I do "ldd lyx". >

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-27 Thread Kostas Oikonomou
I'm stil confused about both the problem, and the solution. Maybe someone could elucidate... A) The problem: why can't Qt use Type 1 CM fonts? Why do you need Truetype fonts? B) The solution: What is fontconfig? It doesn't show up when I do "ldd lyx". Is it documented somewhere?

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:14:21PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > John, something that looks suspiscious is that > qfont_loader.C:addFontPath() does not return a success value, so it is > difficult to assess whether we have a font. Compare this to the code > in xfont_loader.C:addFontPath().

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> This still leaves us with the question why you ever got wrong John> symbols (ie lyx/qt thought the fonts were available, when they John> are not) in the first place. We've had a few people have that, John> but I do not know why. When you

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:23:57PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: > Anyway, adding the path for the latex-ttx fonts to XftConfig fixed the > problem. In any case the fallback would have been to show "alpha" in red text, not to use arbitrary symbols from arbitrary fonts. Is this xforms or Qt fronten

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-26 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:23:57PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: > The directory where the fonts were installed was not in my XftConfig. I was > thrown off by the fact that a) the fonts showed up in xfontsel, etc and b) > my other font directories are not listed there either (debian has some wei

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

2003-02-26 Thread Nathan Weston
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 20:39, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:02:56PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: > > I am having the same problem (on debian unstable wi/ qt frontend and qt > > 3.1). I just installed latex-ttf-fonts, but it hasn't helped. They seem > > to be installed properl