On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 10:04 PM, John Robert Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 17 Jan 2015 00:47:27 James S. Cavenaugh wrote: >> I am a brand new user to Lyx. The first thing I noticed when I started >> to read the documentation after downloading it was how small the font >> was and how hard on my eyes. I did find the preferences and changed it >> from 120% to 200% but saying a word about that up front would help >> prevent eye strain for others like me, prior to reading a bunch of tiny >> font to learn about the system first. >> >> JSC > Hi James > > If you are reading the files within LyX you can go to Tools>Preferences>Look > and feel>Screen fonts and adjust the Zoom%. Mine is currently 150%. > You can also adjust the zoom using the ctrl+scrollwheel combo. And you can simply compile (View) the document, read it in your PDF viewer, and adjust the zoom as per your preferences.
This said, I agree, perhaps mentioning this in the docs is worthwhile. Regards, Liviu > This setting only applies to the screen fonts; it has no effect on the fonts > in > the document. > > John > -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
