On Sunday 07 September 2003 20:50, Rajil Saraswat wrote:
> On Sunday 07 September 2003 19:35, John Levon wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:15:56PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> > > 2. Why did the math symbols disappear and become ERT after
> > > recompilation? Is this related to the version of Qt? (although
> > > I'm pretty sure I recompiled LyX with the same version of Qt as
> > > I had with the previous compile...)
> >
> > Yes, Qt's that use fontconfig need the special fonts installed
> >
> > john
>
> I am not sure about this. I am running qt 3.2cvs/kde3.2cvs under
> gentoo with fontconfig. I am not using any latex-ttf-fonts and all
> symbols are shown properly. Infact if i use the latex-ttf-fonts
> then, 'epsilon' symbol changes to ERT while all others are ok,
> which is very weird.

Hi,

I have a similar problem, though *not* after recompiling: I am running 
debian unstable with lyx 1.3.2 for weeks and only now (after some 
updates, including xfonts) I'm having trouble with math fonts - 
without any change of lyx version. Typing "\alpha" in math mode 
displays letters: "alpha"

lyx -dbg font
clearly shows that lyx doesn't find the math screen fonts:

Looking for font family eufm10 ...  FAILED :-(
...

Months ago I had installed the latex-ttf-fonts and they were working 
very well all time.
Now I also tried the latex-xft-fonts (see 
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/Qt
), but without success.

And now the point is: If I run gnome2.2 as another (newly added) user, 
everything works fine, a 'lyx -dbg font' prints

Looking for font family eufm10 ...  got it !
...

Deleting ~/.lyx , I found that the problem is unrelated to ~/.lyx . 
There must be some (additional/missing?) parameters in the 
environment, or in the X configuration, or in the Gnome 
configuration, or whereever, which prevent lyx from loading the 
fonts.

Getting lost, I also tried adding the ttf- and xft-fonts to the X11 
font path (see
http://osr5doc.ca.caldera.com:457/GECG/X_Font_ProcAddFn.html
), but without success.

Can anybody tell me where lyx is searching these math fonts, or will I 
have to look into the sources?

It seems to me that there has been some tacit (?) change in the 
organization of fonts recently.

Thanks, Johannes

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