On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:09:42PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> John> Rescale bitmap fonts
>
> So those of us who do not have nice truetype fonts installed (or no
> support for them in the X server) have to endure crappy scaled PS
> fonts instead of hand-made bitmap fonts? Damn.
I don't know. Maybe Qt can be configured somehow.
> John> What is the purpose of spellchecker "use alternative language" ?
>
> Use some fixed dictionary name instead of just passing the lyx
> language name
OK, so it's just really confusingly labelled.
> John> What does "shortcut" in formats do ?
>
> I guess it is the shortcut which is used in menu entries.
eek :)
> John> What does "adapt output" do ? (been over this one before)
>
> Says whether you want to pass -Pprinter option to dvips. A normally
> configured site wants this, but crappy linux sites in general do not
> have properly configured dvips for their printers. Old dvips used to
> break on non-existing config file name.
Can you explain what happens in each case :
1. adapt output off, printer name empty
2. adapt output on, printer name empty
3. adapt output off, printer name given
4. adapt output on, printer name given
> John> Is there any point in "ascii line length" ?
>
> Control the line-length of all the ascii files we output (latex,
> ascii, docbook...)
I know what it does, I just wonder why.
> When you change the textclass of a document, do you want to reset the
> options of this class (number of columns, ...) to the new class defaults.
didn't we used to ask about this in the doc dialog ?
regards
john
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