Installation of fontconfig is mostly a distribution issue - not a lyx issue. You neglected to mention your distibution.
For me - works happily under both redhet 8 and 9. distribution-specific instructions would be unfortunate and work to maintain , but I don't see a lot of options. In Ximians' case - as a specialist GUI kind-of provider, requesting to Ximian to add lyx to their packages could be one way.. john On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 20:44, James Philp wrote: > Hello, > > I realize that this is alrady becoming an irritation > for some on the list but it is not at all clear how to > get the math fonts to work. > > Reading through the archive you get the same answers > over and over again, but they don't work (at least for > me). > > 1. install the fonts : needs fontconfig > 2. install fontconfig : red carpet won't do it. > 3. tried everything possible to install from source > fails for both qt and xforms > > The fact that so many people have difficulties with > this shouldn't irritate others on the list. And > perhaps someone might then even suggest a real > solution to the problem.
