On Thursday 24 January 2002 10:11 am, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> Dekel Tsur wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:19:40AM +0100, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> > > Manegold wrote:
> > > > Yes I use the german localization.
> > > > I use have "-*-helvetica-medium-r" under
> > > > Einstellungen->Aussehen->Benutzerschnittstelle->Zeichensatz
> > > > Dialoge and use Zoom 150% and 80dpi. I don't know where the
> > > > fontsize for the menues/dialogs are set. They do not change with
> > > > zoom or dpi.
> > >
> > > AFAIK you cannot set the fontsize of the dialogs (?)
> > > Hmm... I just wanted to figure what the differences to my settings
> > > are.
> >
> > But you can choose the font, and different fonts have different
> > widths at the same size.
>
> Yes, but I have the same font ("-*-helvetica-medium-r") as Thorsten,
> which is the default one (I know that helvetica is not helvetica).
> I think, since this may happen to some (german) users on some systems
> with the default settings, and since something that crashes LyX is a
> major bug, we should encounter the source of the problem and try to
> eliminate this problem.
> If the only solution is to prevent long words in the translation, we
> should inform Pit, but maybe the problem lies otherwhere.
This is unfortunately a bug in xforms itself and there's nothing we can do
about it other to avoid words longer than the widget. So, as you say, inform
Pit.
Angus
