On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Georg Baum <georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Hi, > > we have two related problems here: > > 1) At http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/f496ec373bafa/lyxgit we changed the > font style from "Regular" to "LyX" to work around a qt shortcoming. This is > probably the reason why cmr10.ttf is not used any longer to display the > superscript 3. Note that the discussion at the bug > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9229 which was solved by this change did > include the former maintainers of the Debian LyX package. We did try hard > not to break any package depending on LyX fonts.
i appreciate the effort in trying not to break any package, is there something that can be done to address the breakage of matplotlib from within fonts-lyx? > 2) The font replacement algorithm used by matplotlib has a bug. It seems it > uses some kind of symbol font which causes the omega instead of the > superscript 3. This symbol does not come from the additionally queried > cmex10.ttf font, I believe this font is tested because cmr10.ttf did not > work, but is then discarded as well. could you jump on https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/6976 and discuss this on that issue? matplotlib maints are curious to know more about that thanks! -- Sandro "morph" Tosi My website: http://sandrotosi.me/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SandroTosi