-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:49:35 -0400 Von: "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Urtzi Jauregi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: Re: LyX 1.4.3 won\'t render math characters on Ubuntu 7.04
> Urtzi Jauregi wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > Since I upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty (7.04), whenever I input a special > > character in math mode, I just get the name of the character, not the > > rendered character itself. > > > > For example: to get an integral sign I switch to math mode, type \int > and > > press space. In previous versions, the \int would get immediately > replaced by > > a proper integral sign; now, all I get is a red "int" on the screen. A > few > > math characters, such as square roots, fractions, and (sub)indexes work > > correctly, tough. > > I just asked about this a couple days ago, and got a fix from Paul > Smith, who pointed me to > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Qt > > The fix of putting the tt fonts in ~/.fonts/ worked for me, except that > lyx chose a symbol font as the default. Once I changed that back to a > standard font, it worked nicely. I think this is set up for problems > with Ubunto, not the Angstrom (zaurus) that I am setting up, so it will > probably work better for you. Ignore the windows-specific Readme file > in the package. > > -- > > David L. Johnson > > "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by > little statesmen and philosophers and divines." --Ralph Waldo Emerson Well, on my ubuntu feisty box all symbols work with the latex-xft-fonts package. But I did a "sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" some time ago, maybe this helps? phil
