Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-08 Thread Anders Ekberg
So, as far as I can tell, the basic trade-off between Qt 4.2.3 and Qt 4.3.0 is visualizing onscreen italic fonts correctly, versus ability to copy to Word. By "Word" I assume you mean some external application, right? Or is it really Word in particular? (What about Text Edit, or Mail e.g.

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 7, 2007, at 5:57 PM, Anders Ekberg wrote: If you have time (unfortunately I don't) and interest you could try compiling with a QT snapshot (4.3.1 or 4.4) from: http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/snapshots and see if the issue with Italic fonts has been solved. I tried it with

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Gerard Ateshian
On Aug 7, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Aug 7, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Gerard Ateshian wrote: I've recompiled 1.5.1 with Qt 4.2.3 and here is what I find: - The Times font shows up fine in Qt 4.2.3. It is not in sans- serif typeface. - Italics work properly in Qt 4.2.3 (but not in Qt

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Anders Ekberg
On 7 aug 2007, at 23.10, Gerard Ateshian wrote: I've recompiled 1.5.1 with Qt 4.2.3 and here is what I find: - The Times font shows up fine in Qt 4.2.3. It is not in sans- serif typeface. That bug was only for QT4.3 IIRC (the work around is that even if you set the font to Times, the font a

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 7, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Gerard Ateshian wrote: I've recompiled 1.5.1 with Qt 4.2.3 and here is what I find: - The Times font shows up fine in Qt 4.2.3. It is not in sans- serif typeface. - Italics work properly in Qt 4.2.3 (but not in Qt 4.3.0). - On my machine (PowerBook G4, PPC, 1.67 G

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Gerard Ateshian
I've recompiled 1.5.1 with Qt 4.2.3 and here is what I find: - The Times font shows up fine in Qt 4.2.3. It is not in sans-serif typeface. - Italics work properly in Qt 4.2.3 (but not in Qt 4.3.0). - On my machine (PowerBook G4, PPC, 1.67 GHz, 1 GB rAM) I find no speed penalty between Qt 4.

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Anders Ekberg
Bennett Helm Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:22:27 -0700 On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Could it be the use of a different Qt version? LyX-1.5.0rc2: Qt-4.3.0 (I didn't have rc1 to check) LyX-1.5.0b2: Qt-4.2.3 What was the nice thing abou

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Could it be the use of a different Qt version? LyX-1.5.0rc2: Qt-4.3.0 (I didn't have rc1 to check) LyX-1.5.0b2: Qt-4.2.3 What was the nice thing about using qt 4.3? Abdel would know; I believe

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Could it be the use of a different Qt version? > > LyX-1.5.0rc2: Qt-4.3.0 (I didn't have rc1 to check) > LyX-1.5.0b2: Qt-4.2.3 What was the nice thing about using qt 4.3? JMarc

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Yes, the two versions of LyX are using different versions of Qt: LyX 1.5.0beta2 uses Qt 4.2.3 LyX 1.5.1 uses Qt 4.3.0 So the problem is with Qt. Gerard On Aug 7, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Gerard Ateshian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, On Mac OS X, starting from LyX 1.

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 7, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Gerard Ateshian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, On Mac OS X, starting from LyX 1.5.0rc1, and carrying through to 1.5.1, the italic Times font appears as slanted upright Times font on the screen, instead of true italic. This problem did

Re: Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Gerard Ateshian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Mac OS X, starting from LyX 1.5.0rc1, and carrying through to > 1.5.1, the italic Times font appears as slanted upright Times font on > the screen, instead of true italic. This problem did not occur on > earlier versions, including 1.5.0bet

Times italic font on LyX 1.5.1 Mac OS X

2007-08-07 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Hi, On Mac OS X, starting from LyX 1.5.0rc1, and carrying through to 1.5.1, the italic Times font appears as slanted upright Times font on the screen, instead of true italic. This problem did not occur on earlier versions, including 1.5.0beta2. See the attached screen snapshot. The sam