RevTeX

1999-06-23 Thread Alessandro Magni


I am a newbie to TeX, so this could explain many things.
After installing LyX, I tried to read a paper of a friend of main,
written down in laTeX, using RevTeX macros.
Update postscript gave me a lot (more than 500) errors, even after
specifying to use Layout-document-revTeX.

There is something I do not know?


Thanks a lot

Alessandro



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Re: !TeX capacity exceeded, sorry -- HELP!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

 "Richard" == Richard A Bilonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Richard I am getting the following error in LyX's LaTeX Log for an 18
Richard page document (with many tables):

Richard ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=263001]
Richard template \hkip \tabcolsep {\hskip 1sp\ignorespaces I4609 E
Richard LEK,MARTIN  If you really absolutely need more capacity, you
Richard can ask a wizard to enlarge me.

Richard Is this a LyX problem or a TeX problem?

This probably a LaTeX problem. I am surprised that this happens. Did
you put your tables in table floats (I guess yes, since you say they
are numberered)? Then you could try to put the tables in their own
pages (Layout-Document, Float_options=="p") and see whether it helps.

JMarc



Re: !TeX capacity exceeded, sorry -- HELP!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

Jean-Marc,

Thanks for the suggestion.

Here is what I have done. I have one very large table. 
I wanted to place it in one table float. But when I 
check long table (to cause it to break across pages), 
it never splits across pages. So instead I made 8 
separate tables by hand. After doing this, when I tried 
to create a Postscript view, I only got two pages 
instead of 18 pages. Then I looked at the log to see 
what was happening. So now I've broken the document 
into three parts which is OK but not ideal.

I hope that if I don't use the table float, the table 
will break across pages.

Rick Bilonick

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:22:24 +0200 (MET DST), Jean-Marc 
Lasgouttes wrote:

 "Richard" == Richard A Bilonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
writes:

Richard I am getting the following error in LyX's 
LaTeX Log for an 18
Richard page document (with many tables):

Richard ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory 
size=263001]
Richard template \hkip \tabcolsep {\hskip 
1sp\ignorespaces I4609 E
Richard LEK,MARTIN  If you really absolutely need 
more capacity, you
Richard can ask a wizard to enlarge me.

Richard Is this a LyX problem or a TeX problem?

This probably a LaTeX problem. I am surprised that 
this happens. Did
you put your tables in table floats (I guess yes, 
since you say they
are numberered)? Then you could try to put the tables 
in their own
pages (Layout-Document, Float_options=="p") and see 
whether it helps.

JMarc




Re: !TeX capacity exceeded, sorry -- HELP!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

 "Richard" == Richard A Bilonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Richard Jean-Marc, Thanks for the suggestion.

Richard Here is what I have done. I have one very large table.  I
Richard wanted to place it in one table float. But when I check long
Richard table (to cause it to break across pages), it never splits
Richard across pages. So instead I made 8 separate tables by
Richard hand. After doing this, when I tried to create a Postscript
Richard view, I only got two pages instead of 18 pages. Then I looked
Richard at the log to see what was happening. So now I've broken the
Richard document into three parts which is OK but not ideal.

Richard I hope that if I don't use the table float, the table will
Richard break across pages.

I think it will, although I do not have much experience with tables.

JMarc



Question about bibliography

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

Is it possible to divide bibliography part of a lyx document into two or
more sections (for example: books, articles, video, etc.) If possible
how? Is it possible to start numbering from 1 for each section in the
bibliography...



Re: Question about bibliography

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous


 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:29:36 +0300
 From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Question about bibliography
 
 Is it possible to divide bibliography part of a lyx document into two or
 more sections (for example: books, articles, video, etc.) If possible
 how? Is it possible to start numbering from 1 for each section in the
 bibliography...
 

Going to LaTeX, you may use the bibtopics package to build up
a bibliography sorted by type of sources.
To provide one bibliography per section or chapter, 
the packages are bibunits end custombib.
I never tried to mix both

Regards

-- 
Jean-Pierre



A list problem

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

Hi,

I am re-writing my list of publications, and I would like to do it in the following 
way:

1990
1. Economic policy, Cheltenham: Elgar.
2. The birds and the bees, Oxford: OUP

1991
3. New developments in theory, in: Journal of Whatever, pp. 23-25
4. Why Moravcsik is Wrong, in: International Affairs, pp. 1-17

etc.

So the problem is that I want to have consecutive numbering on the items, but 
intermittently I would like to put in the years.
Does anyone have an idea how I can do it? I looked in the handbook, but couldn't find 
any example for this (admittedly strange) problem.

I'll be grateful for any hints,

Andreas

---
Dr. Andreas Busch
Universität Heidelberg  Tel. (06221) 54-2874
Institut für Politische WissenschaftFax (06221) 54-2896
Marstallstrasse 6   E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
69117 Heidelberg, Germany   http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bp7



Advice reqd.: Going to start thesis

1999-06-23 Thread Q Modnar

Hi, this will be my first attempt at writing a thesis using
LyX and so I've been following the discussions on the
subject which were taking place in May. Before I start
writing the thesis I'd like some info. I'd appreciate it
even if you have answers to only some of the questions:

1. Since my university doesn't have a fixed class style
(there's guidelines but no fix style), should I use the
"book" style or "article" style?

2. Is it possible to have my bibliography in the format:
   Authorname, Title, Year
instead of
   [1] Authorname, Title, Year
The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to reference papers
by Authorname, Year in the body of my thesis instead of
using number in the form of [x]. If this is possible then
how are cross references and labels made.

3. Since I expect the thesis to run into a couple of
hundred pages I thought of writing it in sections, i.e. a
each  chapter in a seperate files, so that it's easy for me
to carry a copy round in a disk. Will I have any trouble
combining the chapters later? What happens to the
bibliography? Can I have a common bibliography for all the
files?

Thanks very much!

_
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How to get rid of jaggy fonts?

1999-06-23 Thread Felciano, Ramon


Hi --

I've been running LyX 1.0.3 successfully under RedHat 6.0 on my ThinkPad
600 for a few weeks now with little problems (although I haven't gotten
the previewing to work, but that's a different story...). The one
problem I haven't been able to solve is the appearance of fonts. In
general, they don't look as clean as on my desktop machine, but in
particular:

1. Boldface typefaces (e.g. those used in most headings) appear jagged,
as if they were rendered at a different size and then stretched up.
2. Fonts are much smaller: setting Options - Screen Options - Font
Zoom to 100 on my desktop produces very legible sizes, whereas on my
laptop the sizes are much smaller (appear to be about 5 pixels tall)

I'm generally an X11 novice, but I poked around with xfontsel on both
machines, and they seem to have similar font configurations. For
example, setting xfontsel to display -*-times-medium-r- on both machines
yields the same results. Is there something else that would affect the
size of fonts in LyX?

Thanks in advance.

Ramon

P.S. I very much echo Julian's kudos to Lyx -- it has made LaTeX
palatable for me!!

-+
Ramon M. Felciano|  InGenuity Systems
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   |   http://www.ingenuity.com/
-+



Re: How to get rid of jaggy fonts?

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Felciano, Ramon wrote:

 1. Boldface typefaces (e.g. those used in most headings) appear jagged,
 as if they were rendered at a different size and then stretched up.
 2. Fonts are much smaller: setting Options - Screen Options - Font
 Zoom to 100 on my desktop produces very legible sizes, whereas on my
 laptop the sizes are much smaller (appear to be about 5 pixels tall)

Hi!

You may want to try true type fonts. This was covered earlier on this
list. You can search the archives for xfstt which is a true-type font
server for X. The true types scale well to larger sizes. They may or may
not help on your laptop screen. I use xfstt under Debian 2.1 and it works
great under LyX.

Thanks. Syrus.

-- 

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept.




RevTeX

1999-06-23 Thread Alessandro Magni


I am a newbie to TeX, so this could explain many things.
After installing LyX, I tried to read a paper of a friend of main,
written down in laTeX, using RevTeX macros.
Update postscript gave me a lot (more than 500) errors, even after
specifying to use Layout-document-revTeX.

There is something I do not know?


Thanks a lot

Alessandro



--

\ Alessandro Magni
/   IEN Galileo Ferraris
\   c.M.d'Azeglio 42, 10125 Torino (ITALIA)
/   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
\   Fax (39)11-6507611
/   Tel (39)11-3919757
\   Homepage at:
http://alpha.ien.it/~magni/home.html
/





Re: !TeX capacity exceeded, sorry -- HELP!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

 "Richard" == Richard A Bilonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Richard I am getting the following error in LyX's LaTeX Log for an 18
Richard page document (with many tables):

Richard ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=263001]
Richard template \hkip \tabcolsep {\hskip 1sp\ignorespaces I4609 E
Richard LEK,MARTIN  If you really absolutely need more capacity, you
Richard can ask a wizard to enlarge me.

Richard Is this a LyX problem or a TeX problem?

This probably a LaTeX problem. I am surprised that this happens. Did
you put your tables in table floats (I guess yes, since you say they
are numberered)? Then you could try to put the tables in their own
pages (Layout-Document, Float_options=="p") and see whether it helps.

JMarc



Re: !TeX capacity exceeded, sorry -- HELP!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

Jean-Marc,

Thanks for the suggestion.

Here is what I have done. I have one very large table. 
I wanted to place it in one table float. But when I 
check long table (to cause it to break across pages), 
it never splits across pages. So instead I made 8 
separate tables by hand. After doing this, when I tried 
to create a Postscript view, I only got two pages 
instead of 18 pages. Then I looked at the log to see 
what was happening. So now I've broken the document 
into three parts which is OK but not ideal.

I hope that if I don't use the table float, the table 
will break across pages.

Rick Bilonick

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:22:24 +0200 (MET DST), Jean-Marc 
Lasgouttes wrote:

 "Richard" == Richard A Bilonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
writes:

Richard I am getting the following error in LyX's 
LaTeX Log for an 18
Richard page document (with many tables):

Richard ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory 
size=263001]
Richard template \hkip \tabcolsep {\hskip 
1sp\ignorespaces I4609 E
Richard LEK,MARTIN  If you really absolutely need 
more capacity, you
Richard can ask a wizard to enlarge me.

Richard Is this a LyX problem or a TeX problem?

This probably a LaTeX problem. I am surprised that 
this happens. Did
you put your tables in table floats (I guess yes, 
since you say they
are numberered)? Then you could try to put the tables 
in their own
pages (Layout-Document, Float_options=="p") and see 
whether it helps.

JMarc




Re: !TeX capacity exceeded, sorry -- HELP!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

 "Richard" == Richard A Bilonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Richard Jean-Marc, Thanks for the suggestion.

Richard Here is what I have done. I have one very large table.  I
Richard wanted to place it in one table float. But when I check long
Richard table (to cause it to break across pages), it never splits
Richard across pages. So instead I made 8 separate tables by
Richard hand. After doing this, when I tried to create a Postscript
Richard view, I only got two pages instead of 18 pages. Then I looked
Richard at the log to see what was happening. So now I've broken the
Richard document into three parts which is OK but not ideal.

Richard I hope that if I don't use the table float, the table will
Richard break across pages.

I think it will, although I do not have much experience with tables.

JMarc



Question about bibliography

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

Is it possible to divide bibliography part of a lyx document into two or
more sections (for example: books, articles, video, etc.) If possible
how? Is it possible to start numbering from 1 for each section in the
bibliography...



Re: Question about bibliography

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous


 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:29:36 +0300
 From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Question about bibliography
 
 Is it possible to divide bibliography part of a lyx document into two or
 more sections (for example: books, articles, video, etc.) If possible
 how? Is it possible to start numbering from 1 for each section in the
 bibliography...
 

Going to LaTeX, you may use the bibtopics package to build up
a bibliography sorted by type of sources.
To provide one bibliography per section or chapter, 
the packages are bibunits end custombib.
I never tried to mix both

Regards

-- 
Jean-Pierre



A list problem

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

Hi,

I am re-writing my list of publications, and I would like to do it in the following 
way:

1990
1. Economic policy, Cheltenham: Elgar.
2. The birds and the bees, Oxford: OUP

1991
3. New developments in theory, in: Journal of Whatever, pp. 23-25
4. Why Moravcsik is Wrong, in: International Affairs, pp. 1-17

etc.

So the problem is that I want to have consecutive numbering on the items, but 
intermittently I would like to put in the years.
Does anyone have an idea how I can do it? I looked in the handbook, but couldn't find 
any example for this (admittedly strange) problem.

I'll be grateful for any hints,

Andreas

---
Dr. Andreas Busch
Universität Heidelberg  Tel. (06221) 54-2874
Institut für Politische WissenschaftFax (06221) 54-2896
Marstallstrasse 6   E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
69117 Heidelberg, Germany   http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bp7



Advice reqd.: Going to start thesis

1999-06-23 Thread Q Modnar

Hi, this will be my first attempt at writing a thesis using
LyX and so I've been following the discussions on the
subject which were taking place in May. Before I start
writing the thesis I'd like some info. I'd appreciate it
even if you have answers to only some of the questions:

1. Since my university doesn't have a fixed class style
(there's guidelines but no fix style), should I use the
"book" style or "article" style?

2. Is it possible to have my bibliography in the format:
   Authorname, Title, Year
instead of
   [1] Authorname, Title, Year
The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to reference papers
by Authorname, Year in the body of my thesis instead of
using number in the form of [x]. If this is possible then
how are cross references and labels made.

3. Since I expect the thesis to run into a couple of
hundred pages I thought of writing it in sections, i.e. a
each  chapter in a seperate files, so that it's easy for me
to carry a copy round in a disk. Will I have any trouble
combining the chapters later? What happens to the
bibliography? Can I have a common bibliography for all the
files?

Thanks very much!

_
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How to get rid of jaggy fonts?

1999-06-23 Thread Felciano, Ramon


Hi --

I've been running LyX 1.0.3 successfully under RedHat 6.0 on my ThinkPad
600 for a few weeks now with little problems (although I haven't gotten
the previewing to work, but that's a different story...). The one
problem I haven't been able to solve is the appearance of fonts. In
general, they don't look as clean as on my desktop machine, but in
particular:

1. Boldface typefaces (e.g. those used in most headings) appear jagged,
as if they were rendered at a different size and then stretched up.
2. Fonts are much smaller: setting Options - Screen Options - Font
Zoom to 100 on my desktop produces very legible sizes, whereas on my
laptop the sizes are much smaller (appear to be about 5 pixels tall)

I'm generally an X11 novice, but I poked around with xfontsel on both
machines, and they seem to have similar font configurations. For
example, setting xfontsel to display -*-times-medium-r- on both machines
yields the same results. Is there something else that would affect the
size of fonts in LyX?

Thanks in advance.

Ramon

P.S. I very much echo Julian's kudos to Lyx -- it has made LaTeX
palatable for me!!

-+
Ramon M. Felciano|  InGenuity Systems
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   |   http://www.ingenuity.com/
-+



Re: How to get rid of jaggy fonts?

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Felciano, Ramon wrote:

 1. Boldface typefaces (e.g. those used in most headings) appear jagged,
 as if they were rendered at a different size and then stretched up.
 2. Fonts are much smaller: setting Options - Screen Options - Font
 Zoom to 100 on my desktop produces very legible sizes, whereas on my
 laptop the sizes are much smaller (appear to be about 5 pixels tall)

Hi!

You may want to try true type fonts. This was covered earlier on this
list. You can search the archives for xfstt which is a true-type font
server for X. The true types scale well to larger sizes. They may or may
not help on your laptop screen. I use xfstt under Debian 2.1 and it works
great under LyX.

Thanks. Syrus.

-- 

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept.




RevTeX

1999-06-23 Thread Alessandro Magni


I am a newbie to TeX, so this could explain many things.
After installing LyX, I tried to read a paper of a friend of main,
written down in laTeX, using RevTeX macros.
Update postscript gave me a lot (more than 500) errors, even after
specifying to use Layout->document->revTeX.

There is something I do not know?


Thanks a lot

Alessandro



--

\ Alessandro Magni
/   IEN Galileo Ferraris
\   c.M.d'Azeglio 42, 10125 Torino (ITALIA)
/   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
\   Fax (39)11-6507611
/   Tel (39)11-3919757
\   Homepage at:
http://alpha.ien.it/~magni/home.html
/





Re: !TeX capacity exceeded, sorry -- HELP!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

> "Richard" == Richard A Bilonick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Richard> I am getting the following error in LyX's LaTeX Log for an 18
Richard> page document (with many tables):

Richard> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=263001]
Richard>  \hkip \tabcolsep {\hskip 1sp\ignorespaces I4609 E
Richard> LEK,MARTIN & If you really absolutely need more capacity, you
Richard> can ask a wizard to enlarge me.

Richard> Is this a LyX problem or a TeX problem?

This probably a LaTeX problem. I am surprised that this happens. Did
you put your tables in table floats (I guess yes, since you say they
are numberered)? Then you could try to put the tables in their own
pages (Layout->Document, Float_options=="p") and see whether it helps.

JMarc



Re: !TeX capacity exceeded, sorry -- HELP!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

Jean-Marc,

Thanks for the suggestion.

Here is what I have done. I have one very large table. 
I wanted to place it in one table float. But when I 
check long table (to cause it to break across pages), 
it never splits across pages. So instead I made 8 
separate tables by hand. After doing this, when I tried 
to create a Postscript view, I only got two pages 
instead of 18 pages. Then I looked at the log to see 
what was happening. So now I've broken the document 
into three parts which is OK but not ideal.

I hope that if I don't use the table float, the table 
will break across pages.

Rick Bilonick

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:22:24 +0200 (MET DST), Jean-Marc 
Lasgouttes wrote:

>> "Richard" == Richard A Bilonick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
writes:
>
>Richard> I am getting the following error in LyX's 
LaTeX Log for an 18
>Richard> page document (with many tables):
>
>Richard> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory 
size=263001]
>Richard>  \hkip \tabcolsep {\hskip 
1sp\ignorespaces I4609 E
>Richard> LEK,MARTIN & If you really absolutely need 
more capacity, you
>Richard> can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
>
>Richard> Is this a LyX problem or a TeX problem?
>
>This probably a LaTeX problem. I am surprised that 
this happens. Did
>you put your tables in table floats (I guess yes, 
since you say they
>are numberered)? Then you could try to put the tables 
in their own
>pages (Layout->Document, Float_options=="p") and see 
whether it helps.
>
>JMarc




Re: !TeX capacity exceeded, sorry -- HELP!

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

> "Richard" == Richard A Bilonick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Richard> Jean-Marc, Thanks for the suggestion.

Richard> Here is what I have done. I have one very large table.  I
Richard> wanted to place it in one table float. But when I check long
Richard> table (to cause it to break across pages), it never splits
Richard> across pages. So instead I made 8 separate tables by
Richard> hand. After doing this, when I tried to create a Postscript
Richard> view, I only got two pages instead of 18 pages. Then I looked
Richard> at the log to see what was happening. So now I've broken the
Richard> document into three parts which is OK but not ideal.

Richard> I hope that if I don't use the table float, the table will
Richard> break across pages.

I think it will, although I do not have much experience with tables.

JMarc



Question about bibliography

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

Is it possible to divide bibliography part of a lyx document into two or
more sections (for example: books, articles, video, etc.) If possible
how? Is it possible to start numbering from 1 for each section in the
bibliography...



Re: Question about bibliography

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous


>> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:29:36 +0300
>> From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Question about bibliography
>> 
>> Is it possible to divide bibliography part of a lyx document into two or
>> more sections (for example: books, articles, video, etc.) If possible
>> how? Is it possible to start numbering from 1 for each section in the
>> bibliography...
>> 

Going to LaTeX, you may use the bibtopics package to build up
a bibliography sorted by type of sources.
To provide one bibliography per section or chapter, 
the packages are bibunits end custombib.
I never tried to mix both

Regards

-- 
Jean-Pierre



A list problem

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

Hi,

I am re-writing my list of publications, and I would like to do it in the following 
way:

1990
1. Economic policy, Cheltenham: Elgar.
2. The birds and the bees, Oxford: OUP

1991
3. New developments in theory, in: Journal of Whatever, pp. 23-25
4. Why Moravcsik is Wrong, in: International Affairs, pp. 1-17

etc.

So the problem is that I want to have consecutive numbering on the items, but 
intermittently I would like to put in the years.
Does anyone have an idea how I can do it? I looked in the handbook, but couldn't find 
any example for this (admittedly strange) problem.

I'll be grateful for any hints,

Andreas

---
Dr. Andreas Busch
Universität Heidelberg  Tel. (06221) 54-2874
Institut für Politische WissenschaftFax (06221) 54-2896
Marstallstrasse 6   E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
69117 Heidelberg, Germany   http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bp7



Advice reqd.: Going to start thesis

1999-06-23 Thread Q Modnar

Hi, this will be my first attempt at writing a thesis using
LyX and so I've been following the discussions on the
subject which were taking place in May. Before I start
writing the thesis I'd like some info. I'd appreciate it
even if you have answers to only some of the questions:

1. Since my university doesn't have a fixed class style
(there's guidelines but no fix style), should I use the
"book" style or "article" style?

2. Is it possible to have my bibliography in the format:
   Authorname, Title, Year
instead of
   [1] Authorname, Title, Year
The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to reference papers
by Authorname, Year in the body of my thesis instead of
using number in the form of [x]. If this is possible then
how are cross references and labels made.

3. Since I expect the thesis to run into a couple of
hundred pages I thought of writing it in sections, i.e. a
each  chapter in a seperate files, so that it's easy for me
to carry a copy round in a disk. Will I have any trouble
combining the chapters later? What happens to the
bibliography? Can I have a common bibliography for all the
files?

Thanks very much!

_
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com



How to get rid of jaggy fonts?

1999-06-23 Thread Felciano, Ramon


Hi --

I've been running LyX 1.0.3 successfully under RedHat 6.0 on my ThinkPad
600 for a few weeks now with little problems (although I haven't gotten
the previewing to work, but that's a different story...). The one
problem I haven't been able to solve is the appearance of fonts. In
general, they don't look as clean as on my desktop machine, but in
particular:

1. Boldface typefaces (e.g. those used in most headings) appear jagged,
as if they were rendered at a different size and then stretched up.
2. Fonts are much smaller: setting Options -> Screen Options -> Font
Zoom to 100 on my desktop produces very legible sizes, whereas on my
laptop the sizes are much smaller (appear to be about 5 pixels tall)

I'm generally an X11 novice, but I poked around with xfontsel on both
machines, and they seem to have similar font configurations. For
example, setting xfontsel to display -*-times-medium-r- on both machines
yields the same results. Is there something else that would affect the
size of fonts in LyX?

Thanks in advance.

Ramon

P.S. I very much echo Julian's kudos to Lyx -- it has made LaTeX
palatable for me!!

-+
Ramon M. Felciano|  InGenuity Systems
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   |   http://www.ingenuity.com/
-+



Re: How to get rid of jaggy fonts?

1999-06-23 Thread Anonymous

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Felciano, Ramon wrote:

> 1. Boldface typefaces (e.g. those used in most headings) appear jagged,
> as if they were rendered at a different size and then stretched up.
> 2. Fonts are much smaller: setting Options -> Screen Options -> Font
> Zoom to 100 on my desktop produces very legible sizes, whereas on my
> laptop the sizes are much smaller (appear to be about 5 pixels tall)

Hi!

You may want to try true type fonts. This was covered earlier on this
list. You can search the archives for xfstt which is a true-type font
server for X. The true types scale well to larger sizes. They may or may
not help on your laptop screen. I use xfstt under Debian 2.1 and it works
great under LyX.

Thanks. Syrus.

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