Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Angus Leeming
I have been running qt-lyx remotely over the network from two diferent machines. One of these machines is an Alpha running Tru64 unix. The other is a PC running RH8. Needless to say, these two machines have entirely different fonts installed. Does anyone have any idea how I might tweak things

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:21:51PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: I also find that the RH8 box (uses fontconfig) can display mathed fonts happily but I get the ubiquitous red string descriptions on the Tru64 unix machine. Am I right in saying that there is no work around for this over the

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:21:51PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: I also find that the RH8 box (uses fontconfig) can display mathed fonts happily but I get the ubiquitous red string descriptions on the Tru64 unix machine. Am I right in saying that there is no work around

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:54:04PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: I have installed the free replacement for the Bakoma fonts on the machine running LyX and on the remote RH8 box. I have the non-free originals on the Tru64 box. If I run LyX locally on the Tru64 machine then all is Ok. If I log

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: Actually, I suspect that this is not the cause of the problem. The real cause is that the directory trees have a different structure. On the Tru64 machine the equivalent of /home/aleem is /usr/users/aleem, so the necessary xfonts dir is not found: $ Adding

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:54:04PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: I have installed the free replacement for the Bakoma fonts on the machine running LyX and on the remote RH8 box. I have the non-free originals on the Tru64 box. If I run LyX locally on the Tru64 machine then all is Ok. If I

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:19:30PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: Actually, I suspect that this is not the cause of the problem. The real cause is that the directory trees have a different structure. On the Tru64 machine the equivalent of /home/aleem is /usr/users/aleem,

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Dekel Tsur wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:54:04PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: I have installed the free replacement for the Bakoma fonts on the machine running LyX and on the remote RH8 box. I have the non-free originals on the Tru64 box. If I run LyX locally on the Tru64 machine then

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:54:04PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: so the necessary xfonts dir is not found: $ Adding /home/aleem/.lyx-1.3.3cvs/xfonts/ to the font path. This dir has nothing to do with the fontconfig-based loading of the latex-xft-fonts regards john

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Angus Leeming
John Levon wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:54:04PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: so the necessary xfonts dir is not found: $ Adding /home/aleem/.lyx-1.3.3cvs/xfonts/ to the font path. This dir has nothing to do with the fontconfig-based loading of the latex-xft-fonts I think we've

Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Angus Leeming
I have been running qt-lyx remotely over the network from two diferent machines. One of these machines is an Alpha running Tru64 unix. The other is a PC running RH8. Needless to say, these two machines have entirely different fonts installed. Does anyone have any idea how I might tweak things

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:21:51PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > I also find that the RH8 box (uses fontconfig) can display mathed > fonts happily but I get the ubiquitous red string descriptions on the > Tru64 unix machine. Am I right in saying that there is no work around > for this over the

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:21:51PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: >> I also find that the RH8 box (uses fontconfig) can display mathed >> fonts happily but I get the ubiquitous red string descriptions on >> the Tru64 unix machine. Am I right in saying that there is no work >>

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:54:04PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > I have installed the free replacement for the Bakoma fonts on the > machine running LyX and on the remote RH8 box. I have the non-free > originals on the Tru64 box. If I run LyX locally on the Tru64 machine > then all is Ok. If I

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: >> Actually, I suspect that this is not the cause of the problem. The >> real cause is that the directory trees have a different structure. >> On the Tru64 machine the equivalent of /home/aleem is >> /usr/users/aleem, so the necessary xfonts dir is not found: >> $ Adding

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:54:04PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > I have installed the free replacement for the Bakoma fonts on the > machine running LyX and on the remote RH8 box. I have the non-free > originals on the Tru64 box. If I run LyX locally on the Tru64 machine > then all is Ok. If

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:19:30PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > >> Actually, I suspect that this is not the cause of the problem. The > >> real cause is that the directory trees have a different structure. > >> On the Tru64 machine the equivalent of /home/aleem is > >>

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:54:04PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: >> >> I have installed the free replacement for the Bakoma fonts on the >> machine running LyX and on the remote RH8 box. I have the non-free >> originals on the Tru64 box. If I run LyX locally on the Tru64 >>

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:54:04PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > so the necessary xfonts dir is not found: > $ Adding /home/aleem/.lyx-1.3.3cvs/xfonts/ to the font path. This dir has nothing to do with the fontconfig-based loading of the latex-xft-fonts regards john

Re: Running LyX remotely: font questions

2003-07-16 Thread Angus Leeming
John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:54:04PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > >> so the necessary xfonts dir is not found: >> $ Adding /home/aleem/.lyx-1.3.3cvs/xfonts/ to the font path. > > This dir has nothing to do with the fontconfig-based loading of the > latex-xft-fonts I think