>>>>> "Vaclav" == Vaclav Smidl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Vaclav> 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.

Vaclav> I feared that would be the case. Unfortunatelly, this
Vaclav> significantly degrades LyX usability in Win.

Note that there is a similar problem with LyX/Mac, for which we had to
introduce special code to correct font metrics. It would be
interesting to see whether changing lyx_gui::needs_ugly_metrics_hack()
to return true for win32 will help it to work better.

JMarc

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