On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 05:27:59PM -0500, Alex Casti wrote: > ------------ > ISSUE #1 > ------------ > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but is it the case that > lyx-1.3.0 does not require XFORMS?
If you use the QT frontend, you don't need XForms. > > I used the binary "lyx-1.3.0-1rh8-qt.i386.rpm" to install > version 1.3.0. > > It looks great, except that I don't seem to have the usual > WYSIWYG feature when I type in formulas, greek letters, and > so forth. It just leaves in the raw latex. >From the INSTALL file (also in NEWS): Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the latex-ttf-fonts package, tobe found on ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ to get maths symbols displayed properly. To find out, type: ldd which lyx | grep fontconfig at the console. Both RH8 and Debian unstable distributions are known to use fontconfig.
