The equal sign shows up well for me in both Chrome and Safari. I've had good luck with Foxit on Windows; however, I suspect this is can be blamed on it.
It might be interesting to force embedding the fonts in the PDF and see if the user can see the equal signs then. On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:40:24PM +0530, Madhusudan Singh wrote: > > Have you considered the use of MathJax? > > > > If your math is web only, that is a compelling alternative. > > On Apr 15, 2016 10:37 PM, "Tim Wescott" <t...@wescottdesign.com> wrote: > > > > > I posted this paper to my website yesterday: > > > http://wescottdesign.com/articles/pid/pidWithoutAPhd.pdf. > > > > > > A reader contacted me asking why I left out the equals signs in the > > > equations. It turned out that the equals signs did not render > correctly > > > in his web reader plug-in, but did render correctly in the related > > > stand-alone reader. Here's what he said: > > > > > > "Hi, > > > > > > I'm attaching bmps of screenshots to this message, showing the bad > > > rendering. This is through the Foxit add-on to the Firefox browser. > > > I just downloaded the file, rather than looking at it in the browser, > > > and when the file is opened by Foxit, the equals signs show up just > > > fine." > > > > > > This isn't a problem with Lyx per se., but (likely) some interaction > > > between tex2pdf, the Foxit software, and possibly the guy's screen > > > resolution. But -- you guys are smart, so I'm asking you if you (A) > > > know what's going on, and (B) have any suggestions for how I could work > > > around this for Foxit users without making my pdf files too ugly for > > > normal humans to want to read. > > I don't have an idea of how to fix the problem, but in case it helps: > the equals signs show fine for me in Chromium. > > Scott >
