>>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Marcus> And one step further: Why should LyX support bitmap fonts?
Marcus> AFAIK this has only two important effects:

Marcus> 1. Almost every new LyX user has to make the
Marcus> "ugly-fonts-experience".

What ugly font experience? Are you concerned about screen fonts or
fonts in the DVI file? Fonts in the DVI file are only a problem in PDF
files AFAIK. 

Marcus> 2. The target document becomes device dependent.

That's only for PDF. So what you are after is "improve PDF support".

Marcus> So my wish for LyX 1.2: Please remove the support for bitmap
Marcus> fonts!

Something like "you are trying to use a bitmap font, and we have
determined that you should not. Please change your font settings,
otherwise I will do that arbitrarily for you"? %-]

JMarc

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