On 12 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > On 12 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > > > > i would like to summarize the my understanding of the problems i > > > encountered, > > > please comment on: > > > > > > 1. Screen painting. > > > after installing unicode fonts for X displaying ancient greek letters > > > works in lyx > > > without problems. > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > Not here. I've set "language" to Greek and I've tried every available > > encoding, including utf8x, but the characters on-screen never change at > > all. And I've installed all the relevant font packages I can find. I'm > > using TexLive. > > no, no, this is misunderstanding. screen painting has _nothing_ to do with > with latex or utf8x encoding etc. it has something to do the way you have > set fonts for your X-windows. > > i don't know how things are done on debian, but in gentoo only installing > dejavu fonts was enough (the reconfiguration of X is part of instalation > procedure.) Do you have these fonts installed? > whats the output of: ls -l /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/ > > pavel
Yes, I do have dejavu (ttf-dejavu) but I don't know how to tell lyx to use it - it doesn't appear as a choice. But I'm not sure that what I am trying to do is possible in Lyx (see my reply to Gunter below). Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)