COOL!!!!
So you are saying that I can just go to gcc-3.4.4 and the Cygwin supplied QT
and it will just work??!!
Great!!
---Kayvan
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 04:14:24PM +0000, Luis Rivera wrote:
> Luis Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I compiled and use LyX --with-frontend=xforms succesfully on cygwin
> > (version 1.5.18-1, with gcc 3.4.4-1).
> >
> > However, --with-frontend=qt, I can can compile LyX succesfully, but it
> > doesn't display any characters: just plain white squares.
> > Perhaps there is nothing wrong with LyX, and the problem is the qt library;
> > but I have no clue.
>
> The answer is: RTFM!
>
> In fact, there is nothing wrong, AFAICT, with LyX or the Qt library; but Qt is
> trying to use proportional fonts, so I needed to install the missing font
> package for Cygwin-X.
>
> In short, this port of LyX-Qt on Cygwin-X requires the Cygwin native python
> interpreter, ImageMagick, ghostscript, and the jpeg and qt3 packages, plus the
> Xserver scalable fonts. Apparently, LyX-Qt on Cygwin-X does posix style
> searches for the conversion scripts, so it doesn't recognize the paths to
> Windows native python, imgck or gs. This far it's been talking pretty well to
> MiKTeX, so it seems that the TeX distribution included in Cygwin is not
> necessary.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luis.
>
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