Some math symbols are not magnified

Hello everyone, I'm having a great time writing papers with LyX. Thanks a lot for writing such a great piece of software. I have a question about the zoom feature that is activated using Ctrl+(mouse scroll). It seems that some symbols in equations are not being correctly scaled, such as "overli

Math Symbols - Fixed

Many thanks to Guenter for the comment about OT1. Followed this path and have changed to using non-Tex fonts. This has solved the < > and | conversion errors and seems to have fixed an inconsistency in handling quotation marks. Rather oddly the older Lyx 2.0.6 on Kubuntu uses OT1 but has no erro

Re: Math Symbols

Hello Anders, (also Guenter and Chris) The platform is Mx-Linux using Lyx 2.1.3. Mx is based upon Debian. Am actually working on a 100+ page user manual for Mx, being written in Lyx. Koma script and published in html and pdf. (Refer the Lyx Users post from Jerry

Re: Math Symbols

On 2015-03-05, Gordon Cooper wrote: > Hello Chris, > No, they don't, we get an inverted exclamation > mark for < and inverted question mark for >. The font that > appears to display them correctly in pdf is Typewriter. > I tried < > from Lyx to Open Document format and had > th

Re: Math Symbols

> On 05 Mar 2015, at 04:27, Gordon Cooper wrote: > > Hello Chris, >No, they don't, we get an inverted exclamation > mark for < and inverted question mark for >. The font that > appears to display them correctly in pdf is Typewriter. > > I tried < > from Lyx to Open Document f

Re: Math Symbols

Hello Chris, No, they don't, we get an inverted exclamation mark for < and inverted question mark for >. The font that appears to display them correctly in pdf is Typewriter. I tried < > from Lyx to Open Document format and had the same result ! and ? inverted. Gordon. On 05/

Re: Math Symbols

LaTeX (and LyX) just use the standard ASCII keyboard characters for < and > and they print just fine to PDF. Are you saying they do not print properly for you? -chris Gordon Cooper March 3, 2015 at 5:54 PM Greetings. The great list of Lyx symbols has a cou

Math Symbols

Greetings. The great list of Lyx symbols has a couple of omissions. < and > the basic 'less than' and 'greater than' symbols. These shapes do appear in the Latin list, but do not convert when a pdf output is sought. The Maths symbols do contain symbols for "not less than", "less t

Re: count math symbols with "statistics"

On 02/25/2012 10:11 AM, Frank Fun wrote: Hi, I am using the lyx 1.6.4 "tools -> statistics" menu item to count the words in my manuscript. The manuscript contains a lot of mathematical symbols which I would like to count as words however. Lyx counts characters, but this is unhelpful for me si

Re: count math symbols with "statistics"

Hi, I am using the lyx 1.6.4 "tools -> statistics" menu item to count the words in my manuscript. The manuscript contains a lot of mathematical symbols which I would like to count as words however. Lyx counts characters, but this is unhelpful for me since I would like to count each individual ma

Re: Question on adding WYSIWY* math symbols

LaTeX-packages as in your > case. LyX needs to know how to display the symbol. > regards Uwe > p.s. (What you can do is to modify the file "symbols", but be patient!) If the symbol in questin is a Unicode char (most math symbols are), you have some more options: a) Write a math

Re: Question on adding WYSIWY* math symbols

Dear Uwe, thanks for your answer. Philip Uwe Stöhr wrote: Philip Mayer schrieb: So, my question is: Is there a straightforward way of adding support for additional symbols? No. Support for new symbols needs to be programmed directly in LyX, especially when the symbols require special LaT

Re: Question on adding WYSIWY* math symbols

Philip Mayer schrieb: So, my question is: Is there a straightforward way of adding support for additional symbols? No. Support for new symbols needs to be programmed directly in LyX, especially when the symbols require special LaTeX-packages as in your case. LyX needs to know how to display t

Question on adding WYSIWY* math symbols

Hi everybody, I am wondering about how to add new symbols to the WYSIWY* math editor. I noticed that "normal" delimiters such as [ ] and { } are supported; however, I require the double brackets [[ ]] used for semantics. Of course, I can add this with ERT (\llbracket - Package stmaryrd) and

Re: LyX (Windows) Math Symbols do not display (font problem?)

magneez schrieb: When installing on different machines, some math symbols are not displayed (the "\latexcode" is displayed instead)... > I have installed (in windows system) all the Bakoma fonts that are located in \Resources\fonts, You don't need to do this. I would uni

LyX (Windows) Math Symbols do not display (font problem?)

Hi all, there seems to be no relevant documentation about this issue at least for Windows users (in my case Windows XP pro SP3 32bit). When installing on different machines, some math symbols are not displayed (the "\latexcode" is displayed instead). E.g. on my latest try the followi

Re: math symbols gone in lyx 1.3.4

> You need to install the latex-xft font package. perfect, thanks What I still don't get is why it didn't work with the yast installation? Regards Robert

Re: math symbols gone in lyx 1.3.4

Robert schrieb: I installed Lyx with the installation cds. Lyx works, but part of the mathematical symbols is gone. eg. there is int and cdot now written in red instead of the symbol. You need to install the latex-xft font package. regards Uwe

math symbols gone in lyx 1.3.4

Hello, I'using lyx 1.3.4 on SUSE Linux 9.1 since years. Now I migratet to mac using Suse Linux 9.1 with Parallels which works perfectly so far. I installed Lyx with the installation cds. Lyx works, but part of the mathematical symbols is gone. eg. there is int and cdot now written in red instead of

Re: interactive viewing of math symbols

> "Shourya" == Shourya Prakash Otta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shourya> Thanks Bo. Should have checked it out before sending an Shourya> email. Looks like any key stroke works, other than a return Shourya> key. This is a known problem, but I am not sure how to fix it. JMarc

Re: interactive viewing of math symbols

Thanks Bo. Should have checked it out before sending an email. Looks like any key stroke works, other than a return key. Shourya Bo Peng wrote: I am using Lyx 1.4.2 in windows. I had used earlier Lyx 1.3.6 in Linux. In this older linux version, you can start an equation/equation array and s

Re: interactive viewing of math symbols

Shourya Prakash Otta wrote: Hi, I am using Lyx 1.4.2 in windows. I had used earlier Lyx 1.3.6 in Linux. In this older linux version, you can start an equation/equation array and say "\alpha" and the math symbol for "alpha" will appear. (assumed that you have the latex-xft fonts installed).

Re: interactive viewing of math symbols

> > feature extensively. In the windows version, this doesn't work. So, in > > LyX 1.4.2, is it a feature or a bug? Any ideas or work arounds ? > > Strange. It works fine here. Repeat after me slowly > 1. insert->math->whatever > 2. type \alpha followed by blank > > Do you see the real alpha? >

Re: interactive viewing of math symbols

I am using Lyx 1.4.2 in windows. I had used earlier Lyx 1.3.6 in Linux. In this older linux version, you can start an equation/equation array and say "\alpha" and the math symbol for "alpha" will appear. (assumed that you have the latex-xft fonts installed). I have used this feature extensively

interactive viewing of math symbols

Hi, I am using Lyx 1.4.2 in windows. I had used earlier Lyx 1.3.6 in Linux. In this older linux version, you can start an equation/equation array and say "\alpha" and the math symbol for "alpha" will appear. (assumed that you have the latex-xft fonts installed). I have used this feature ext

Re: Windows 1.3.6: unrecognizable math symbols

Lars Henriksen wrote: Hello, I have been using the unofficial Windows port installed in a Cygwin environment for a while. Now I have downloaded and installed LyX 1.3.6 for Windows. The installation of all needed components went smoothly and OK (as far as I can tell). But the result was disappo

Windows 1.3.6: unrecognizable math symbols

Hello, I have been using the unofficial Windows port installed in a Cygwin environment for a while. Now I have downloaded and installed LyX 1.3.6 for Windows. The installation of all needed components went smoothly and OK (as far as I can tell). But the result was disappointing in that mathemat

No Message-Disposition requests, please! [Was Re: Math symbols gibberish in Lyx...]

Srinivas Nedunuri writes: [clip] Hi Srinivas, I thought it was already mentioned here once, but please turn OFF message disposition ("message was read" receipts) when you post to this (or any other) mailing list! -- Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tiros-Translations

Re: Math symbols gibberish in Lyx (but OK in dvi)

y, June 01, 2005 4:01 PM Subject: Re: Math symbols gibberish in Lyx (but OK in dvi) > Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: > > > (I am using the Windoze port of Lyx) > > > > The problem is that math symbols that I enter using the Math Panel > > don't appear in the editor as

Re: Math symbols gibberish in Lyx (but OK in dvi)

Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: (I am using the Windoze port of Lyx) > The problem is that math symbols that I enter using the Math Panel > don't appear in the editor as anything like the actual symbol (e.g. > \alpha appears as the (R) symbol, => arrow as ")", etc.). Y

Re: Math symbols gibberish in Lyx (but OK in dvi)

Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: (I am using the Windoze port of Lyx) The problem is that math symbols that I enter using the Math Panel don't appear in the editor as anything like the actual symbol (e.g. \alpha appears as the (R) symbol, => arrow as ")", etc.). It previews OK in

Math symbols gibberish in Lyx (but OK in dvi)

(I am using the Windoze port of Lyx) The problem is that math symbols that I enter using the Math Panel don't appear in the editor as anything like the actual symbol (e.g. \alpha appears as the (R) symbol, => arrow as ")", etc.). It previews OK in the dvi previewer, and als

Re: math-symbols again

M.B. Schiekel schrieb: > Hi, > > after updating from KDE-3.1.4 to KDE-3.3.2 (SuSE-8.2) and recompiling > LyX-1.3.5-qt, (and reconfigure), most math-symbols on the LyX-screen are > replaced by text. > The latex-xft-fonts are installed and worked Ok with LyX-1.3.5-qt before >

Re: math-symbols again

Micha Feigin schrieb: >>after updating from KDE-3.1.4 to KDE-3.3.2 (SuSE-8.2) and recompiling >>LyX-1.3.5-qt, (and reconfigure), most math-symbols on the LyX-screen are >>replaced by text. > Could you possibly be using a non-english locale? If so try setting LANG >

Re: math-symbols again

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 19:48:54 +0100 "M.B. Schiekel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > after updating from KDE-3.1.4 to KDE-3.3.2 (SuSE-8.2) and recompiling > LyX-1.3.5-qt, (and reconfigure), most math-symbols on the LyX-screen are > replaced by text. > The

math-symbols again

Hi, after updating from KDE-3.1.4 to KDE-3.3.2 (SuSE-8.2) and recompiling LyX-1.3.5-qt, (and reconfigure), most math-symbols on the LyX-screen are replaced by text. The latex-xft-fonts are installed and worked Ok with LyX-1.3.5-qt before the update. Now I looked for the latex-ttf-fonts on ftp

Re: math symbols

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:43:40 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your help. Using lyx-1.3.5-1mdk10_qt.i586.rpm, the math > symbols showed up right away. Bye, Andy I am glad that my suggestion solved your problem. Now, you can benefit from a QT frontend fo

Re: math symbols

Thanks for your help. Using lyx-1.3.5-1mdk10_qt.i586.rpm, the math symbols showed up right away. Bye, Andy

Re: math symbols

owing the instructions on the wiki.lyx.org site. However, I am still not able to get the math symbols to display properly. Do you have any other ideas? Thanks for the prompt responses. Did you then do Edit->Reconfigure, exit LyX and restart it? If so, I'll gracefully bow out as my knowledge

Re: math symbols

ki.lyx.org site. However, I'm still > not able to get the math symbols to display properly. Do you have any > other ideas? Thanks for the prompt replies. Bye, Andy Andy, Now, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Official Edition, but, before, LyX ran very well on Mandrake 10. I suggest you to uninst

Re: math symbols

I tried "urpmi fonts-ttf-latex", and the reply was "Everything already installed". I also already installed the latex-xft-fonts package following the instructions on the wiki.lyx.org site. However, I am still not able to get the math symbols to display properly. Do you have any

Re: math symbols

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:38:20 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble displaying math symbols on the screen with lyx. Does > someone know what I am doing wrong? I followed the help file referenced > earlier on this list, at > http://wiki

Re: math symbols

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble displaying math symbols on the screen with lyx. Does someone know what I am doing wrong? I followed the help file referenced earlier on this list, at http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Troubleshooting#fonts and the INSTALL file,

math symbols

I'm having trouble displaying math symbols on the screen with lyx. Does someone know what I am doing wrong? I followed the help file referenced earlier on this list, at http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Troubleshooting#fonts and the INSTALL file, but I'm still having trouble. Det

Re: Math Symbols Not Displayed: 1.3.5

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Angus Leeming wrote: Run fc-cache -fv See http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Troubleshooting#latexttf Angus, I'll go look at that later today. Just grabbing those fonts and putting copies in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf and ../TrueType did the job. FWIW, I've no idea how I end

Re: Math Symbols Not Displayed: 1.3.5

Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Paul Smith wrote: > >> It seems (almost sure) that you need to install the latex-xft-fonts >> package. You can download the source of it from >> >> http://movementarian.org/latex-xft-fonts-0.1.tar.gz > > Paul, > >No Slackware package for it. However

Re: Math Symbols Not Displayed: 1.3.5

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Paul Smith wrote: http://movementarian.org/latex-xft-fonts-0.1.tar.gz Paul, Well, I just answered my own question: put the fonts there and LyX finds 'em just fine. Many thanks, Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)

Re: Math Symbols Not Displayed: 1.3.5

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Paul Smith wrote: It seems (almost sure) that you need to install the latex-xft-fonts package. You can download the source of it from http://movementarian.org/latex-xft-fonts-0.1.tar.gz Paul, No Slackware package for it. However, after downloading and untaring it, I find a hal

Re: Math Symbols Not Displayed: 1.3.5

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:57:06 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Er, I'm rather embarrassed to admit that I've not worked on my book for a > few weeks and I've upgraded from 1.3.4 to 1.3.5 in the meantime. Now that > I'm scrolling through the text to find that compile error I n

Math Symbols Not Displayed: 1.3.5

Er, I'm rather embarrassed to admit that I've not worked on my book for a few weeks and I've upgraded from 1.3.4 to 1.3.5 in the meantime. Now that I'm scrolling through the text to find that compile error I notice that the math and Greek symbols in math mode are no longer displayed, the words ar

Re: math symbols

Philipp Fleig wrote: Hi all, recently I installed LyX 1.3.3-Win32 on my computer. When I tried to display a math formula I had to realize, that math symblos like for instance the integral sign are represented by totally different symbols in my document. For example an integral becomes an H. Can

math symbols

Hi all, recently I installed LyX 1.3.3-Win32 on my computer. When I tried to display a math formula I had to realize, that math symblos like for instance the integral sign are represented by totally different symbols in my document. For example an integral becomes an H. Can anyone of you help me

Re: lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display

> "Nikita" == Nikita V Youshchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Unfortunately, today one of our users reported that lyx-qt >> (installed from debian binary package 1.3.4-2) crashes every other >> minute for him, until restarted with LC_ALL=C. Nikita> Ok, we found it. It crashes on each auto

Re: lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display

"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Unfortunately, today one of our users reported that lyx-qt (installed >> from debian binary package 1.3.4-2) crashes every other minute for him, >> until restarted with LC_ALL=C. > | Ok, we found it. It crashes on each autosave, because of err

Re: lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display

> Unfortunately, today one of our users reported that lyx-qt (installed > from debian binary package 1.3.4-2) crashes every other minute for him, > until restarted with LC_ALL=C. Ok, we found it. It crashes on each autosave, because of error in ru.po, which causes exception from boost. And really

Re: lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display

x27;t, stated they would not. > > Basically, the XFT fonts have a particular encoding, and it does not > match that requested by Qt when it's looking for a font suitable for > Cyrillic (even though there is no Cyrillic glyph used for the math > symbols). > > It might be poss

Re: lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display

>>>>> "Nikita" == Nikita V Youshchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nikita> Hello. The known problem with lyx-qt + russian locale + math Nikita> symbols display (that causes no math symbols to be displayed Nikita> if Qt uses fontconfig) may be workaround

Re: lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display

> --- "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. > > > > The known problem with lyx-qt + russian locale + > > math symbols display (that > > causes no math symbols to be displayed if Qt uses > > fontconfig) may be > >

Re: lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display

--- "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > The known problem with lyx-qt + russian locale + > math symbols display (that > causes no math symbols to be displayed if Qt uses > fontconfig) may be > workarounded by starting lyx-qt a

Re: lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display

--- "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > The known problem with lyx-qt + russian locale + > math symbols display (that > causes no math symbols to be displayed if Qt uses > fontconfig) may be > workarounded by sta

lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display

Hello. The known problem with lyx-qt + russian locale + math symbols display (that causes no math symbols to be displayed if Qt uses fontconfig) may be workarounded by starting lyx-qt as LC_TIME=C lyx-qt

Re: Math symbols

Paul A. Rubin wrote: Colin J. Williams wrote: Rob, Many thanks, maths fonts installed and another hurdle surmounted. The right pointing arrow is still not rendered on LyX, but it appears OK frm View -> DVI. Colin W. There are some issues with the Qt port to Windows. Certain symbols don't di

Re: Math symbols

Colin J. Williams wrote: Rob, Many thanks, maths fonts installed and another hurdle surmounted. The right pointing arrow is still not rendered on LyX, but it appears OK frm View -> DVI. Colin W. There are some issues with the Qt port to Windows. Certain symbols don't display correctly at cert

Re: Math symbols

Rob, Many thanks, maths fonts installed and another hurdle surmounted. The right pointing arrow is still not rendered on LyX, but it appears OK frm View -> DVI. Colin W. Rob S wrote: example. I presume that my XP version of LyX is not properly configured. Could someone advise please? You n

Re: Math symbols

> example. > > I presume that my XP version of LyX is not properly configured. > > Could someone advise please? You need to download and install(not just copy to font folder!) some extra fonts All the info can be found here: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup Step 5 of essential

Math symbols

The Customization Manual has provision for a number of symbols, for example: 00.00. C-s e math-insert \sum -- Summation symbol \sum (not the same as the Greek letter uppercase Sigma \Sigma because it can resize and allows smart upper/lower limits).

Re: LyX wites words instead of math symbols

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:43:59PM +0400, ? ? ?? wrote: > Do you use Qt front-end & locale !=en ? > This is Qt bug. No way to fix by youself. > With locale=en _almost_ every symbol is displayed > With xforms _every_ symbol looks as is. Hmm, what symbols are displayed in xforms bu

Re: LyX wites words instead of math symbols

В сообщении от 31 Май 2004 19:05 Oleg написал(a): > Hi, > > LyX sometimes shows words instead of math operators? Like this: > int geq sum > It works fine again sometimes, but now it always writes words. > so whats the problem? > (LyX 1.3.3, RedHat 8) Do you use Qt front-end & locale !=en ? This is

Re: LyX wites words instead of math symbols

Oleg wrote: > Hi, > > LyX sometimes shows words instead of math operators? Like this: > int geq sum > It works fine again sometimes, but now it always writes words. > so whats the problem? > (LyX 1.3.3, RedHat 8) You don't have the necessary fonts installed. See http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Ly

LyX wites words instead of math symbols

Hi, LyX sometimes shows words instead of math operators? Like this: int geq sum It works fine again sometimes, but now it always writes words. so whats the problem? (LyX 1.3.3, RedHat 8) O.K. LiubrotaZa

math symbols (was Re: full cite in text

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Subir Singh Lamba wrote: > > I have installed lyx version 1.3.4 on Mandrake9.2. I am encountering > strange problem. The integral sign or the summation does not appear as the > proper sign but just int (in red) for integral or sum ( in red) for > summation. I would be grate

Re: Math Symbols missing in Lyx

i know that this topic has been discussed before. I browsed through the archives but the solutions mentioned there did not work for me. :-\ And this includes the solution of installing the latex-xft fonts? If you haven't got these fonts, then you may want to try installing them and see if it m

Math Symbols missing in Lyx

Hello, i know that this topic has been discussed before. I browsed through the archives but the solutions mentioned there did not work for me. :-\ I am using Lyx 1.3.3 with Qt Frontend (Qt 3.3.0b1, XFree86 4.3.0) . When I enter the math mode and enter \sum for example it just is displayed as "

Math symbols in native Win32 port

Hi, I just installed Ruurd Reitsma's Win32 port of LyX 1.3.2 (based on Qt 2.3.0), including the extra fonts. The good news is that I've got the fonts. The bad news is that I'm having a hard time getting certain symbols (such as element-of and, curiously enough, the equality sign) to display

Re: Math symbols

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Rich Shepard wrote: > I cannot find the implication (single-ended double) and equivalence > (double-ended double) arrows on the math panel. Have I missed them > somewhere? On the "AMS Arrows" page there are negated symbols, but no plain > symbols. It's Friday afternoon, r

Math symbols

I cannot find the implication (single-ended double) and equivalence (double-ended double) arrows on the math panel. Have I missed them somewhere? On the "AMS Arrows" page there are negated symbols, but no plain symbols. Puzzled, Rich Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Ap

bad font path element, math symbols display incorrectly

I tried all of the suggestions given so far for getting math symbols to display properly (the two font packages, and a few other things), but none of them have made a difference, and I'm still getting the same error from xset: Adding /usr/share/lyx/xfonts/ to the font path. xset: bad

Math symbols on screen LyX 1.3.1 XForms

Hello! I (still) have problem with LyX 1.3.1 XForms 1.0 under Solaris (SUN computer). I myself manage to compile and use LyX 1.3.1. I have installed it in my home directory. Especially the math symbols (greek characters etc.) show correctly in equations on the screen when I remove the

Re: math symbols are displayed as text

Hello! I am using Red Hat Linux 8.0 and installed LyX 1.3.1 using lyx-1.3.1-1rh8-qt.i386.rpm with rpm -Uvh lyx-1.3.1-1rh8-qt.i386.rpm The math symbols were displayed as LaTeX words. Then I installed latex-ttf-fonts-0.1-1.noarch.rpm from ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/ with rpm -Uvh latex

Re: math symbols are displayed as text

Nirmal Govind wrote: system, and I am wondering how I can make lyx to display all math symbols as a symbol and not a red text? ( A \Leftrightarrow Are you inside the math editor? If not, hit Ctrl-m and type \Leftrightarrow and a space (or hit the rightarrow key) and you'll see the symbol

Re: math symbols are displayed as text

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:01:05PM -0800, Stephen Gregory wrote: > I also tried /usr/lib/qt3 for the directory. None of this works. I > always get > > checking for Qt library name... failed configure: error: Cannot compile a > simple Qt executable. Check you have the right $QTDIR ! Then you're u

Re: math symbols are displayed as text

John, Thanks for the help. I've gone back and read INSTALL and tried several different ways to run configure. I've passed the option telling it where the Qt directory is ./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt3-gcc3.2 and I've checked the environment variable, which is QTDIR=/u

Re: math symbols are displayed as text

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:42:47PM -0800, Stephen Gregory wrote: > that I can't even begin to describe them all. (However, several have > appeared on this list and seem to be known issues with qt which are not > resolved.) There are no known issues with building the Qt frontend on x86 using the G

Re: math symbols are displayed as text

I have the same problem with lyx-1.3.1-1rh8-qt.i386.rpm as Johan Marc and although I wouldn't know where to find latex-ttf-fonts or where to install them if I did, I think we are talking about display fonts here and I can't find anything wrong with those. Unfortunately I can't compare with the resu

Re: math symbols are displayed as text

> system, and I am wondering how I can make lyx to display all math > symbols as a symbol and not a red text? ( A \Leftrightarrow Are you inside the math editor? If not, hit Ctrl-m and type \Leftrightarrow and a space (or hit the rightarrow key) and you'll see the symbol.. Or are

Re: math symbols are displayed as text

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 05:10:23PM +1200, Johan Marc wrote: > I have just installed the precompiled lyx 1.3.1 rpm for rh 8 on my rh8 > system, and I am wondering how I can make lyx to display all math > symbols as a symbol and not a red text? ( A \Leftrightarrow > is displa

math symbols are displayed as text

Hi all, I have just installed the precompiled lyx 1.3.1 rpm for rh 8 on my rh8 system, and I am wondering how I can make lyx to display all math symbols as a symbol and not a red text? ( A \Leftrightarrow is displayed as a red "Leftrightarrow" and not "<==>" ) j

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:16:00AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes John> wrote: >> I see this particular problem, and I am on a system where >> fontconfig is _not_ used. We should make sure that this one works >> too... John> Then Dekel's c

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:16:00AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I see this particular problem, and I am on a system where fontconfig > is _not_ used. We should make sure that this one works too... Then Dekel's changes to lib/symbols must have been broken, or there is some other fault. Eit

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:14:21PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes John> wrote: >> John, something that looks suspiscious is that >> qfont_loader.C:addFontPath() does not return a success value, so it >> is difficult to assess whether we hav

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 07:00:07PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Simply put: they do not work properly with fontconfig. > > Is there some explanation why Qt/fonconfig does not use the font path as > all the other children do? It does, but it does not read or handle the fonts properly. john

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:54:24PM +, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:39:42PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > > > A) The problem: why can't Qt use Type 1 CM fonts? Why do you need Truetype > >fonts? > > Simply put: they do not work properly with fontconfig. Is there som

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:39:42PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > A) The problem: why can't Qt use Type 1 CM fonts? Why do you need Truetype >fonts? Simply put: they do not work properly with fontconfig. > B) The solution: What is fontconfig? It doesn't show up when I do "ldd lyx". >

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

I'm stil confused about both the problem, and the solution. Maybe someone could elucidate... A) The problem: why can't Qt use Type 1 CM fonts? Why do you need Truetype fonts? B) The solution: What is fontconfig? It doesn't show up when I do "ldd lyx". Is it documented somewhere?

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:14:21PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > John, something that looks suspiscious is that > qfont_loader.C:addFontPath() does not return a success value, so it is > difficult to assess whether we have a font. Compare this to the code > in xfont_loader.C:addFontPath().

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> This still leaves us with the question why you ever got wrong John> symbols (ie lyx/qt thought the fonts were available, when they John> are not) in the first place. We've had a few people have that, John> but I do not know why. When you

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:23:57PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: > Anyway, adding the path for the latex-ttx fonts to XftConfig fixed the > problem. In any case the fallback would have been to show "alpha" in red text, not to use arbitrary symbols from arbitrary fonts. Is this xforms or Qt fronten

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:47:55PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > I am using lyx 1.3.0 on a Solaris 8 Sparc system. I moved to 1.3.0 > from 1.2.1. xforms or qt frontend? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:23:57PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: > The directory where the fonts were installed was not in my XftConfig. I was > thrown off by the fact that a) the fonts showed up in xfontsel, etc and b) > my other font directories are not listed there either (debian has some wei

Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)

> > to be installed properly -- they show up in xfontsel, and I can choose > > them as my screen font in lyx -- but I am still not getting proper math > > symbols. > > ldd lyx | grep fontconfig (sanity check) > > > > please create a document with only \leq in it. The

  1   2   >