On Jun 4, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
Jean Kaplan writes:
I found a solution to reduce (or increase) the size of math previews
on the lyx screen (at least for mac os X 10.4.9, mac ppc):
Go to the menu item "Preferences->Look and feel-> screen fonts",
decrease (or increase) the "Screen DPI" and save this changes the
size of math previews without changing the size of the text. To see
the result you have to quit lyx and start again, the button "apply"
does not seem to work for this item.
A tip to get the math preview size adequate to the text : write a
math formula including an \mbox{ some text }, then proceed by trial
and error.
I don't know whether fiddling with "Screen DPI" is the right thing
to do.
You can control the size of math previews by adding the following
line:
\preview_scale_factor 0.9
to either the user preferences or the global lyxrc.dist file. There is
no gui for this, so you have to add that line by using a text editor.
Change the 0.9 value (which is the default) to whatever fits you.
To me it looks like \preview_scale_factor 0.65 is about right
(leaving the screen dpi unmodified). Is the solution, then, to patch
lyxrc.dist on Mac? Is this the value I should use?
Bennett
