On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:16:51PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> The default fonts on my system look like junk. Sorry, that's how it
> is. In particular, the math fonts plainly are awful (basically being
> sloppily rendered line drawings).
This is _only_ for delimiters and accents.
For "ordinary characters" like 'a', \mathbb{R}, \sum etc, either the X
symbol font or suitable LaTeX fonts can be used. So saying "math fonts are
... basically being sloppily rendered line drawings" is a bit strong.
> But the text fonts also are not good. Some sort of printer fonts (what
> is it, Times or what?)
It is whatever you have chosen. What do you think Edit->Preferences->
ScreenFonts (incidently the very first tab when opening the preferences
menu) is good for?
> My Emacs source text buffers use 20x10 fixed fonts. That are fonts that
> are actually designed for readability _at_ _screen_ _resolution_.
So why don't you use them in LyX?
Andre'
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