On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:39:42PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote:

> A) The problem: why can't Qt use Type 1 CM fonts?  Why do you need Truetype
>    fonts?

Simply put:  they do not work properly with fontconfig.

> B) The solution: What is fontconfig?  It doesn't show up when I do "ldd lyx".
>     Is it documented somewhere? 

If you don't have an anti-aliased Qt, then you shouldn't need the special
fonts. fontconfig  + Xft2 are the new anti-aliased fonts stuff

john

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