Josko Plazonic recently had the same problems, and found out they are related to the way LyX chooses which fonts to use. Read http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg28359.html
Lior On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, tal wrote: > After replacing RedHat 7.1 to RedHat 7.2 on my laptop (to solve > hardware issues), I discovered that the lyx math editor started to > behave strangely. I am using lyx-1.1.6fix3 from the binary rpm listed > below, which worked fine with RH7.1. The math-editor does not display > backslash-escaped characters (e.g. \pi, \leftarrow) in the main line, > but does if they appear as sub- or super-scripts. Also, it does not > display the first superscript "upstairs", i.e. typing "a^b" displays > "ab" on the main line, but "a^b^c" displays correctly. This bug happens > only with superscripts; subscripts are displayed OK. These problems are > at the display level only. Viewing the text as dvi, or exporting it as > latex is OK. > > When I compile lyx from the corresponding source RPM, it crashes > immediately with a SIGSEGV signal. > > Any advice? > > Thanks for the input > > Tal Alexander > > > rpm -qi lyx > > Name : lyx Relocations: /usr > Version : 1.1.6fix3 Vendor: (none) > Release : 1 Build Date: Tue 24 Jul 2001 > 07:04:44 PM IDT > Install date: Wed 14 Nov 2001 12:36:22 PM IST Build Host: > camel.internal.sylvan.com > Group : X11/Editors Source RPM: > lyx-1.1.6fix3-1.src.rpm > Size : 14572232 License: see COPYING file > Packager : Kayvan A. Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > URL : http://www.lyx.org/ > Summary : A WYSYWIG frontend to LaTeX > > > > uname -a > Linux cactus 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 17:27:27 EDT 2001 i686 unknown > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tal Alexander > Department of Condensed Matter Physics (Astrophysics), Faculty of Physics > Weizmann Institute of Science, PO Box 26, Rehovot 76100, Israel > Phone ++972-8-934-4483, Fax ++972-8-934-4128, Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
