On Thursday 21 October 2004 13:28, Angus Leeming wrote: > Vaclav Smidl wrote: > > Hi, > > I am happily running LyX on linux. Recently, I have installed Ruurd's > > win32 port for my colleague. The installation was smooth and lyx is > > running as it should. > > However, there is one issue I can not get rid of: the characters for > > \sum and > > \int are displayed much higher than they should (as if the character was > > sitting on top of the box where it should be). The formulas look quite > > bad. > > > > I thought it has something to do with font metrics so I tried both > > latex-xtf and bakoma fonts, without any effect. > > > > Can anybody confirm this? > > Any suggestions? > > I believe that this is a known bug in the Qt library that Ruurd based the > port on. There's nothing that can be done to wrk around it.
I feared that would be the case. Unfortunatelly, this significantly degrades LyX usability in Win. > > The good news is that the kde-cygwin.sf.net project's port of the GPL-ed Qt > to the Win32 platform is now looking pretty advanced. People are starting > to make noises on the lyx-devel list that a natively compiled Win32-LyX > works with this kde-cygwin Qt library. So a 'free' (ie GPL-ed) version of > LyX on Win32 is looking likely in the not too distant future. That would > mean that we (the lyx developers) would start to support it officially > too... I always get a little bit scared when hearing "cygwin". I remember trying to get Claus Hentschel's version running few years ago. After tons of downloaded files and one weekend of work I was still staring at my ugly default windows desktop.... Anyway, I am glad to hear that there is some progress in the area. I am also subscribed to lyx-devel, so if there will be a beta version I will give it a try. Thanks, Vasek
