On Mon, Jun 16, 2003, Matej Cepl wrote:
>
> Couldn't we make an agreement, that there will be only one reply: read
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/9472.
I think one could do better than the above response, which is no more than
the following:
have you installed (for the QT front end) the latex-ttf-fonts package?
In the LyX ftp site it is in the contrib directory.
There are several points that would still be troublesome for someone new
to LyX:
1. It's not clear where the "contrib" directory is...there is no mention
of such a thing at http://www.lyx.org/download/. (That page only refers
to a "stable" and a "bin" directory.) Of course, if users poke around
enough, they will eventually find ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib,
but why not point them there directly?
2. It's probably not clear to many users how one goes about "installing"
this package. Since this is not at all obvious, and is also not the
same for every setup, a few examples would go a long way to clarifying
things. Many users may not even know which file in the contrib directory
to download, and (as far as I can tell) none of them have any instructions.
3. There is no mention of latex-ttf-fonts on the "required and optional
support software" page, which otherwise lists the programs required
for LyX (i.e. TeX, ImageMagick, Xforms, etc.) Since these fonts are
pretty much "required" for the Qt version to be very functional, it
would be better to tell users about this up-front.
4. Some explanation of why these fonts are not included in main distribution
would certainly be helpful. I've seen references on mailing list that
they are "not free", but there are no copyright notices or other
restrictions in the latex-ttf-fonts-0.1.tar.gz file, nor is there any
indication of where these came from or who the authors are.
...dave case
