Re: online fonts look bad on notebook

2000-10-27 Thread Torsten Mueller
>What fonts do you use right now? If you want fixed size, times and >helvetica should give you enough flexibility. Also make sure that your >dpi setting is correct. Finally, you can play with the zoom setting to >get larger/smaller fonts. I am using times, but have also played with helvetica, uto

Re: online fonts look bad on notebook

2000-10-24 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Torsten Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Are you using the same fonts in both cases? >I type in the same string in options->screen_fonts->roman: -*-times This will give you the first font with a XLFD that matches this pattern, as always. You need to find out what kind of

Re: online fonts look bad on notebook

2000-10-24 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Torsten Mueller wrote: > >are you using (Bitmap, Type1, TrueType)? > how can I figure this out? There are two useful programs that tell about fonts, in all X distributions: "xlsfonts" and "xfontsel". You get check if a font is bitmapped or not, by starting xfontsel, selecti

Re: online fonts look bad on notebook

2000-10-24 Thread Torsten Mueller
>Are you using the same fonts in both cases? I type in the same string in options->screen_fonts->roman: -*-times >What kind of fonts >are you using (Bitmap, Type1, TrueType)? how can I figure this out? I must admit, that my knowledge about fonts is low. Until now I have simply chosen them in appl

Re: online fonts look bad on notebook

2000-10-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Tuukka" == Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tuukka> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Torsten Mueller wrote: >> Maybe I have to install other fonts. Is this possible in Linux? Tuukka> Of course. You need scalable fonts, either TrueType or Type1 Tuukka> (or some others, Speedo?). Type1 fonts

Re: online fonts look bad on notebook

2000-10-24 Thread Jan Goebel
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Torsten Mueller wrote: > > > Maybe I have to install other fonts. Is this possible in Linux? > > Of course. You need scalable fonts, either TrueType or Type1 (or some > others, Speedo?). Type1 fonts should be supported with any

Re: online fonts look bad on notebook

2000-10-24 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Torsten Mueller wrote: > Maybe I have to install other fonts. Is this possible in Linux? Of course. You need scalable fonts, either TrueType or Type1 (or some others, Speedo?). Type1 fonts should be supported with any XFree version, but if you're using XFree 4.0 or newer, it

Re: online fonts look bad on notebook

2000-10-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Torsten" == Torsten Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Torsten> thanks for you quick answer. I have already tried it, but Torsten> then all letters are the same size (on our Solaris system, Torsten> the fonts look only slightly changed in this case?). Maybe I Torsten> have to install othe

Re: online fonts look bad on notebook

2000-10-24 Thread Torsten Mueller
>It happens if you do not have good quality scalable fonts (like type1 >fonts under solaris or truetype fonts under linux). In this case, add >in lyxrc >\screen_font_scalable false > >This will force LyX to use only non-stretched bitmap fonts. thanks for you quick answer. I have already tried it,

Re: online fonts look bad on notebook

2000-10-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Torsten" == Torsten Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Torsten> Hi, I use LyX with Linux (Suse 6.1) on a Toshiba notebook pc Torsten> with resolution 1024x768. The program itself works well, but Torsten> the fonts do not look very well on the screen. I have tried Torsten> to play with opt

Re: online fonts look bad on notebook

2000-10-24 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Torsten Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I use LyX with Linux (Suse 6.1) on a Toshiba notebook pc with >resolution 1024x768. >The program itself works well, but the fonts do not look very >well on the screen. >I have tried to play with options->screenfonts, but I am not ab

online fonts look bad on notebook

2000-10-24 Thread Torsten Mueller
Hi, I use LyX with Linux (Suse 6.1) on a Toshiba notebook pc with resolution 1024x768. The program itself works well, but the fonts do not look very well on the screen. I have tried to play with options->screenfonts, but I am not able to get a much better result. When I use LyX on our Solaris sy