On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:24:33AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > If you're using Mandrake, especially 7.2, 8.0, or 8.1, their default font > setup is terrible. Here's a workaround: > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/cookiecrumbfonts.htm > > Steve > >
As a matter of fact, I am using Mandrake 8.1. I read your nice tutorial, but I'm not sure I got it to work. In my /etc/X11/Xconfig-4, I commented out the line # FontPath "unix/:-1" I then added the font paths as you suggested. I shut down X and restarted it, and everything seemed to work fine. However, just to test things, I commented out all of the font paths. According to your tutorial, this means that X shouldn't be able to start at all. However, even with no font paths in the configuration file, X started. The fonts look much better in LyX, but that is the result of my tweaking the zoom and screen dpi settings. It also helps greatly to uncheck the "use scalable fonts" box. I would like to get your tip to work, since it would not only helpt he appearance of LyX, but of other applications like Netscape and Abiword. (I tested Abiword after following your tutorial, and it looked as pitiful as ever.) Thanks Paul > > On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:35 pm, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > The appearance of my font in LyX looks like crumbled cookes. It is hard > > to make out an exclamation point. > > > > I searched through the LyX archives, and found that your screen font is > > determined by the Lyxrc file. I also found that I could get font info if > > I ran 'lyx -dbg font'. I did this, and this is my output: > > > > lyx -dbg font > > Setting debug level to font > > Debugging `font' (Font handling) > > Find a free buffer. > > Using scalable font to get > > -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 > > Font 'Roman, Medium, Upright, Normal, Language: English' matched by > > -urw-times-medium-r-normal--13-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 > > LyX: X11 color linen allocated for background > > LyX: X11 color grey40 allocated for bottom area > > LyX: X11 color black allocated for cursor > > LyX: X11 color black allocated for text > > > > Let me also add that other applications on my linux box look fine. For > > example, vim and KDE Word both appear fine. Abiword, however, looks just > > like LyX--it has that crumbled cookie look. > > > > How do I add a nice font to my lyxrc file to get the screen font to look > > readable? > > > > Thanks > > > > Paul > > -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* ************************
