On 2011-10-09, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Guenter Milde <milde <at> users.berlios.de> writes:
>> On 2011-10-06, Paul A  Rubin wrote:
>> > Hi all,

>> > Not sure where the culprit is, but if I use \neq in a math formula in
>> > LyX with TeXLive 2010 and Evince as the document viewer, it shows up as
>> > an equal sign.  Viewing in PDF is fine, 

>> Could you be more clear here: which TeX engine (XeTeX, pdfTeX, LuaTeX),
>> which output format (DVI, PS, PDF) and which viewer?

> pdfTeX -- DVI -- Evince

I can confirm that. It seems to be an Evince problem, though: exporting to
DVI and viewing the *.dvi file with:

 + xdvik:  \neq shows up as not equal
 - evince: \neq shows up as equal - without the stroke!

Also, when viewing with Evince the first time (but *after* viewing with
xdvik), bitmap-fonts are auto-generated:

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 ec-lmr10
mktexpk: Running gsftopk ec-lmr10 600
[0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
...
[254] [255]
mktexpk: /home/milde/.texmf-var/fonts/pk/modeless/public/lm/ec-lmr10.600pk: 
successfully generated.

It seems to be an Evince bug.

> This is more a matter of curiosity than urgency.  I do most of my work
> in PDF and use DVI primarily for quick checks while writing (since it
> seems a bit faster than PDF ... although some of that may be Acrobat
> Reader being slow to load).  As long as I remember not to freak out
> when I see an equal sign where it should be not equal, I'll be okay.  I
> just thought that maybe this was a well-known symptom of a specific
> font file being missing.

You might try installing/using a dedicated DVI viewer for the quick preview.

Günter

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