Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming wrote: Michael tells me that these fonts problems are fixed in the latest and greatest version of Qt/Win Free. Could you compile an actual qt-mt3.dll and put it on the web. Many thanks in advance and regards Uwe
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming wrote: Michael tells me that these fonts problems are fixed in the latest and greatest version of Qt/Win Free. Could you compile an actual qt-mt3.dll and put it on the web. Many thanks in advance and regards Uwe
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I removed it when I thought you'd grabbed it. Try again but note I've renamed it as: http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx-1.3.7cvs_6Nov2005.tar.gz Got it. Thank you for your patience... Luis.
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Luis Rivera wrote: I removed it when I thought you'd grabbed it. Try again but note I've renamed it as: http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx-1.3.7cvs_6Nov2005.tar.gz Got it. Thank you for your patience... Not at all. -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I removed it when I thought you'd grabbed it. Try again but note I've > renamed it as: > http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx-1.3.7cvs_6Nov2005.tar.gz Got it. Thank you for your patience... Luis.
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Luis Rivera wrote: >> I removed it when I thought you'd grabbed it. Try again but note I've >> renamed it as: >> http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx-1.3.7cvs_6Nov2005.tar.gz > > Got it. Thank you for your patience... Not at all. -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Luis Rivera wrote: http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx-1.3.7cvs.tar.gz The source code at this URL seems to have disappeared. I removed it when I thought you'd grabbed it. Try again but note I've renamed it as: http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx-1.3.7cvs_6Nov2005.tar.gz -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Luis Rivera wrote: >> http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx-1.3.7cvs.tar.gz > The source code at this URL seems to have disappeared. I removed it when I thought you'd grabbed it. Try again but note I've renamed it as: http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx-1.3.7cvs_6Nov2005.tar.gz -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx-1.3.7cvs.tar.gz Angus, The source code at this URL seems to have disappeared. Is it on the wiki page? Thanks. Luis.
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx-1.3.7cvs.tar.gz > Angus, The source code at this URL seems to have disappeared. Is it on the wiki page? Thanks. Luis.
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Luis Rivera wrote: In 1.3.7pre2 (on Win XP) S-C-M minimizes the application (and every other window) and crashes to the desktop (same as the Show Desktop shortcut). The LyX window is alive and well, just minimized. I found the same behavior on Win98. I don't know, but seems to me that the latest patch on Qt made both LyX work on Win98 and popped up these funny things everywhere. By the way, I happened to fix the script and font problems by brute force: since my Win98 box is much slower, I kept starting LyX over and over, without realizing it, and suddenly the scripts ran as expected; then I realized the menus were messed up, but I went on anyway, and since I know some menus by heart, I opened one document--the user manual--, and LyX did the layout and font loading right. Then I restarted LyX, and everything was fine. Very weird... Michael tells me that these fonts problems are fixed in the latest and greatest version of Qt/Win Free. -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Luis Rivera wrote: Luis, I'd be interested to see what happens on your Win98 box... I am happy to report that I am having Johann's and Paul's problems with LyX 1.3.7pre2 on Win98... I mean: exactly the same problems... Which means that LyX 1.3.7pre2 is finally running well on Win98 (well, at least as well as it does on the other Win platforms :-) This is with a native Win32 version or with the Cygwin version? This far, it's also running well on WinXP and Win2k, provided I uninstall the previous version before installing the update. Learning from others' experience ;-) Uwe, are you reading this? I think you should aim to get the WindowInstaller to die gracefully if it is required to overwrite an existing version. At the moment it appears to work but actually does nothing at all. -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Luis Rivera wrote: Which means that LyX 1.3.7pre2 is finally running well on Win98 (well, at least as well as it does on the other Win platforms This is with a native Win32 version or with the Cygwin version? this is the native Win32 version distributed on the wiki page; I haven't had the time to download and compile the source code on cygwin+xforms: my prime target actually... As soon as I get that, I'll report on cygwin. Sorry for the confusion... Luis.
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Luis Rivera wrote: >> >> In 1.3.7pre2 (on Win XP) S-C-M minimizes the application (and every >> other window) and "crashes" to the desktop (same as the "Show >> Desktop" >> shortcut). The LyX window is alive and well, just minimized. > I found the same behavior on Win98. > I don't know, but seems to me that the latest patch on Qt made both > LyX work on Win98 and popped up these funny things everywhere. > By the way, I happened to fix the script and font problems by > brute force: since my Win98 box is much slower, I kept starting > LyX over and over, without realizing it, and suddenly the scripts > ran as expected; then I realized the menus > were messed up, but I went on anyway, and since I know some > menus by heart, I opened one document--the user manual--, and > LyX did the layout and font loading right. Then I restarted LyX, > and everything was fine. > Very weird... Michael tells me that these fonts problems are fixed in the latest and greatest version of Qt/Win Free. -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Luis Rivera wrote: >> Luis, I'd be interested to see what happens on your Win98 box... > I am happy to report that I am having Johann's and Paul's problems > with LyX 1.3.7pre2 on Win98... I mean: exactly the same problems... > > Which means that LyX 1.3.7pre2 is finally running well on Win98 > (well, at least as well as it does on the other Win platforms :-) This is with a native Win32 version or with the Cygwin version? > This far, it's also running well on WinXP and Win2k, provided I > uninstall the previous version before installing the update. > Learning from others' experience ;-) Uwe, are you reading this? I think you should aim to get the WindowInstaller to die gracefully if it is required to overwrite an existing version. At the moment it "appears" to work but actually does nothing at all. -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Luis Rivera wrote: > > > > Which means that LyX 1.3.7pre2 is finally running well on Win98 > > (well, at least as well as it does on the other Win platforms > > This is with a native Win32 version or with the Cygwin version? > this is the native Win32 version distributed on the wiki page; I haven't had the time to download and compile the source code on cygwin+xforms: my prime target actually... As soon as I get that, I'll report on cygwin. Sorry for the confusion... Luis.
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Luis Rivera wrote: Actually, I dunno if you can make a gzipped tarball of the source code available on the wiki. I'm still having trouble grabbing the cvs tree--- courtesy of my webmaster---, and I'd like to know if the cygwin version runs on win95/98, now that I know it can compile and run. http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx-1.3.7cvs.tar.gz It's 7.8MB in size. -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx-1.3.7cvs.tar.gz It's 7.8MB in size. Thank you!
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Luis, I'd be interested to see what happens on your Win98 box... I am happy to report that I am having Johann's and Paul's problems with LyX 1.3.7pre2 on Win98... I mean: exactly the same problems... Which means that LyX 1.3.7pre2 is finally running well on Win98 (well, at least as well as it does on the other Win platforms :-) This far, it's also running well on WinXP and Win2k, provided I uninstall the previous version before installing the update. Learning from others' experience ;-) Cheers, Luis.
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In 1.3.7pre2 (on Win XP) S-C-M minimizes the application (and every other window) and crashes to the desktop (same as the Show Desktop shortcut). The LyX window is alive and well, just minimized. I found the same behavior on Win98. I don't know, but seems to me that the latest patch on Qt made both LyX work on Win98 and popped up these funny things everywhere. By the way, I happened to fix the script and font problems by brute force: since my Win98 box is much slower, I kept starting LyX over and over, without realizing it, and suddenly the scripts ran as expected; then I realized the menus were messed up, but I went on anyway, and since I know some menus by heart, I opened one document--the user manual--, and LyX did the layout and font loading right. Then I restarted LyX, and everything was fine. Very weird... Luis.
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Luis Rivera wrote: > Actually, I dunno if you can make a gzipped tarball of the source > code available on the wiki. I'm still having trouble grabbing > the cvs tree--- courtesy of my webmaster---, and I'd like to know > if the cygwin version runs on win95/98, now that I know it can > compile and run. http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx-1.3.7cvs.tar.gz It's 7.8MB in size. -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx-1.3.7cvs.tar.gz > It's 7.8MB in size. > Thank you!
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Luis, I'd be interested to see what happens on your Win98 box... > I am happy to report that I am having Johann's and Paul's problems with LyX 1.3.7pre2 on Win98... I mean: exactly the same problems... Which means that LyX 1.3.7pre2 is finally running well on Win98 (well, at least as well as it does on the other Win platforms :-) This far, it's also running well on WinXP and Win2k, provided I uninstall the previous version before installing the update. Learning from others' experience ;-) Cheers, Luis.
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In 1.3.7pre2 (on Win XP) S-C-M minimizes the application (and every > other window) and "crashes" to the desktop (same as the "Show Desktop" > shortcut). The LyX window is alive and well, just minimized. > I found the same behavior on Win98. I don't know, but seems to me that the latest patch on Qt made both LyX work on Win98 and popped up these funny things everywhere. By the way, I happened to fix the script and font problems by brute force: since my Win98 box is much slower, I kept starting LyX over and over, without realizing it, and suddenly the scripts ran as expected; then I realized the menus were messed up, but I went on anyway, and since I know some menus by heart, I opened one document--the user manual--, and LyX did the layout and font loading right. Then I restarted LyX, and everything was fine. Very weird... Luis.
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian Ehrlicher has told me that he's resolved many of the outstanding issues with the Cue Tea/Win code that were introduced by the backporting of some official Qt4 code into their code base. I thought, therefore, that I'd upload a snapshot of the current LyX 1.3.x CVS tree to http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre Windows users please try it out. If you're happy with it then I propose to announce it to the lyx-users list sometime soonish too. I'm aware that this executable does not resolve all outstanding issues. In particular, it won't work on Win95 (some weird path problem) and there are problems parsing the list of BibTeX references on opening the citation dialog if the BibTeX database has a path with spaces. Luis, I'd be interested to see what happens on your Win98 box... Got it. Actually, I dunno if you can make a gzipped tarball of the source code available on the wiki. I'm still having trouble grabbing the cvs tree--- courtesy of my webmaster---, and I'd like to know if the cygwin version runs on win95/98, now that I know it can compile and run. Luis.
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Christian Ehrlicher has told me that he's resolved many of the outstanding > issues with the "Cue Tea"/Win code that were introduced by the backporting > of some official Qt4 code into their code base. > > I thought, therefore, that I'd upload a snapshot of the current LyX 1.3.x > CVS tree to http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre > > Windows users please try it out. If you're happy with it then I propose to > announce it to the lyx-users list sometime soonish too. > > I'm aware that this executable does not resolve all outstanding issues. In > particular, it won't work on Win95 (some weird path problem) and there are > problems parsing the list of BibTeX references on opening the citation > dialog if the BibTeX database has a "path with spaces". > > Luis, I'd be interested to see what happens on your Win98 box... > Got it. Actually, I dunno if you can make a gzipped tarball of the source code available on the wiki. I'm still having trouble grabbing the cvs tree--- courtesy of my webmaster---, and I'd like to know if the cygwin version runs on win95/98, now that I know it can compile and run. Luis.
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming wrote: Christian Ehrlicher has told me that he's resolved many of the outstanding issues with the Cue Tea/Win code that were introduced by the backporting of some official Qt4 code into their code base. I thought, therefore, that I'd upload a snapshot of the current LyX 1.3.x CVS tree to http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre Windows users please try it out. If you're happy with it then I propose to announce it to the lyx-users list sometime soonish too. Angus, Further on the installation problem where the configuration script does not run. I matched Johann's report when I installed 1.3.7pre2 over 1.3.7pre1 on my laptop. I believe Johann also installed over an existing copy. Today I installed 1.3.7pre2 on my home machine, but I installed it into a separate directory. The configuration script ran fine. So it seems plausible that the configuration failure is tied to overwriting a previous installation. Paul
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
In 1.3.7pre2 (on Win XP) S-C-M minimizes the application (and every other window) and crashes to the desktop (same as the Show Desktop shortcut). The LyX window is alive and well, just minimized. Didn't find this when I searched bugzilla (which proves nothing, given the number of variants on how it could be worded), and wasn't sure how to report it (given that 1.3.7pre is not listed as a version, though it is a target). Might be a Qt bug (?). Paul
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming wrote: Christian Ehrlicher has told me that he's resolved many of the outstanding issues with the "Cue Tea"/Win code that were introduced by the backporting of some official Qt4 code into their code base. I thought, therefore, that I'd upload a snapshot of the current LyX 1.3.x CVS tree to http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre Windows users please try it out. If you're happy with it then I propose to announce it to the lyx-users list sometime soonish too. Angus, Further on the installation problem where the configuration script does not run. I matched Johann's report when I installed 1.3.7pre2 over 1.3.7pre1 on my laptop. I believe Johann also installed over an existing copy. Today I installed 1.3.7pre2 on my home machine, but I installed it into a separate directory. The configuration script ran fine. So it seems plausible that the configuration failure is tied to overwriting a previous installation. Paul
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
In 1.3.7pre2 (on Win XP) S-C-M minimizes the application (and every other window) and "crashes" to the desktop (same as the "Show Desktop" shortcut). The LyX window is alive and well, just minimized. Didn't find this when I searched bugzilla (which proves nothing, given the number of variants on how it could be worded), and wasn't sure how to report it (given that 1.3.7pre is not listed as a version, though it is a "target"). Might be a Qt bug (?). Paul
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Uwe is it possible to set the screen fonts and the zoom while LyX's Uwe configuration? We would then be independent from Qt's behaviour. Uwe Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New are part of all Windows Uwe installations, so that this should work on all machines. Angus You mean output these values to the lyxrc.defaults file when Angus running the Windows installer? Sure. Go for it. Paul I'm not saying this would be a bad idea, but it would Paul not resolve the problem Johann and I encountered. Paul When I installed 1.3.7pre2, it correctly picked up the Paul screen font and zoom settings I'd been using in 1.3.7pre1 Paul and 1.3.6 from my preferences file. It just didn't apply Paul them to the dialogs. It never has. It never will. The appearance of the dialogs, menus, everything except the main LyX screen is a system-wide thing that is controlled by qtconfig. None of our business. Anyway, as you say, this problem is orthogonal to the one where LyX makes a bad guess of the screen fonts (again using info supplied to it by Qt...) -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Should someone report this to the Qt developers, Feel free. Screenshots always help. However, Christian does know about something similar. It might be the bug http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1330978group_id=49109atid=455140 in which case it might already be fixed. Paul
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: >> Uwe Stöhr wrote: Uwe> is it possible to set the screen fonts and the zoom while LyX's Uwe> configuration? We would then be independent from Qt's behaviour. Uwe> Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New are part of all Windows Uwe> installations, so that this should work on all machines. Angus> You mean output these values to the lyxrc.defaults file when Angus> running the Windows installer? Sure. Go for it. Paul> I'm not saying this would be a bad idea, but it would Paul> not resolve the problem Johann and I encountered. Paul> When I installed 1.3.7pre2, it correctly picked up the Paul> screen font and zoom settings I'd been using in 1.3.7pre1 Paul> and 1.3.6 from my preferences file. It just didn't apply Paul> them to the dialogs. It never has. It never will. The appearance of the dialogs, menus, everything except the main LyX screen is a system-wide thing that is controlled by qtconfig. None of our business. Anyway, as you say, this problem is orthogonal to the one where LyX makes a bad guess of the screen fonts (again using info supplied to it by Qt...) -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Should someone report this to the Qt developers, Feel free. Screenshots always help. However, Christian does know about something similar. It might be the bug http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail=1330978_id=49109=455140 in which case it might already be fixed. Paul
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also did the reverse of Johann's experiment: I reinstalled LyX 1.3.6 (in a separate directory -- installation went fine) and copied the qt-mt3.dll file from that version into the 1.3.7 bin directory. That cured the font problems in 1.3.7. Paul My Lyx used exactly the same font! A simple solution is to delete the Algerian font from your windows\fonts directory. The next best is Arial, which looks decent. Algerian is an ugly font anyway... Johann
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Johann Kellerman wrote: My Lyx used exactly the same font! A simple solution is to delete the Algerian font from your windows\fonts directory. The next best is Arial, which looks decent. Algerian is an ugly font anyway... Johann Wish it were that simple. When I deleted Algerian, Allegro BT was next in line, and it's even harder to read than Algerian was. When I deleted that as well, Qt moved on to American Typewriter, which is next alphabetically (and at least legible). Anyway, I think you've provided a useful clue to where the problem lies. Even though the Edit-Preferences-Look and feel-Screen fonts dialog shows Arial as the sans-serif choice, it's not being used in the dialogs. For what it's worth, on my system Algerian is the *third* font alphabetically (Agency and Agency Bold are the first two). If Algerian is missing, Qt moves down the list alphabetically. It seems odd that it skips the first two fonts. Should someone report this to the Qt developers, or could it possibly be a LyX bug? (In other words, does LyX assert any control over the font selection in the dialogs?) Paul
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Should someone report this to the Qt developers, Feel free. Screenshots always help. However, Christian does know about something similar. or could it possibly be a LyX bug? (In other words, does LyX assert any control over the font selection in the dialogs?) No, it leaves that to Qt. -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus, is it possible to set the screen fonts and the zoom while LyX's configuration? We would then be independent from Qt's behaviour. Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New are part of all Windows installations, so that this should work on all machines. regards uwe
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus, is it possible to set the screen fonts and the zoom while LyX's configuration? We would then be independent from Qt's behaviour. Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New are part of all Windows installations, so that this should work on all machines. You mean output these values to the lyxrc.defaults file when running the Windows installer? Sure. Go for it. -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus, is it possible to set the screen fonts and the zoom while LyX's configuration? We would then be independent from Qt's behaviour. Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New are part of all Windows installations, so that this should work on all machines. You mean output these values to the lyxrc.defaults file when running the Windows installer? Sure. Go for it. I'm not saying this would be a bad idea, but it would not resolve the problem Johann and I encountered. When I installed 1.3.7pre2, it correctly picked up the screen font and zoom settings I'd been using in 1.3.7pre1 and 1.3.6 from my preferences file. It just didn't apply them to the dialogs. Paul
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also did the reverse of Johann's experiment: I reinstalled LyX 1.3.6 > (in a separate directory -- installation went fine) and copied the > qt-mt3.dll file from that version into the 1.3.7 bin directory. That > cured the font problems in 1.3.7. > > Paul > > > My Lyx used exactly the same font! A simple solution is to delete the Algerian font from your windows\fonts directory. The next best is Arial, which looks decent. Algerian is an ugly font anyway... Johann
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Johann Kellerman wrote: My Lyx used exactly the same font! A simple solution is to delete the Algerian font from your windows\fonts directory. The next best is Arial, which looks decent. Algerian is an ugly font anyway... Johann Wish it were that simple. When I deleted Algerian, Allegro BT was next in line, and it's even harder to read than Algerian was. When I deleted that as well, Qt moved on to American Typewriter, which is next alphabetically (and at least legible). Anyway, I think you've provided a useful clue to where the problem lies. Even though the Edit->Preferences->Look and feel->Screen fonts dialog shows Arial as the sans-serif choice, it's not being used in the dialogs. For what it's worth, on my system Algerian is the *third* font alphabetically (Agency and Agency Bold are the first two). If Algerian is missing, Qt moves down the list alphabetically. It seems odd that it skips the first two fonts. Should someone report this to the Qt developers, or could it possibly be a LyX bug? (In other words, does LyX assert any control over the font selection in the dialogs?) Paul
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Should someone report this to the Qt developers, Feel free. Screenshots always help. However, Christian does know about something similar. > or could it possibly be a LyX bug? (In other words, does LyX assert > any control over the font selection in the dialogs?) No, it leaves that to Qt. -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus, is it possible to set the screen fonts and the zoom while LyX's configuration? We would then be independent from Qt's behaviour. Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New are part of all Windows installations, so that this should work on all machines. regards uwe
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Angus, > > is it possible to set the screen fonts and the zoom while LyX's > configuration? We would then be independent from Qt's behaviour. > Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New are part of all Windows > installations, so that this should work on all machines. You mean output these values to the lyxrc.defaults file when running the Windows installer? Sure. Go for it. -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Angus Leeming wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Angus, is it possible to set the screen fonts and the zoom while LyX's configuration? We would then be independent from Qt's behaviour. Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New are part of all Windows installations, so that this should work on all machines. You mean output these values to the lyxrc.defaults file when running the Windows installer? Sure. Go for it. I'm not saying this would be a bad idea, but it would not resolve the problem Johann and I encountered. When I installed 1.3.7pre2, it correctly picked up the screen font and zoom settings I'd been using in 1.3.7pre1 and 1.3.6 from my preferences file. It just didn't apply them to the dialogs. Paul
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
A couple of problems. When installing it over the previous 1.3.6 the configure step during setup fails and lyx has to be closed and opended again to configure. Doing it this way gives completely unreadable fonts in all the dialogs - looks likes 'Algerian' font. The fonts on the menu bars is also a very bold font. Removing the old lyx dir and installing fresh: Once again configure failed. and Lyx wouldn't even start this time - textclass.lst not found. Going back to 1.3.6... Copied the new qt-mt3.dll to lyx 1.3.6 and got the same font issues. At least reconfigure seems to work. Regards, Johann
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Johann Kellerman wrote: A couple of problems. When installing it over the previous 1.3.6 the configure step during setup fails and lyx has to be closed and opended again to configure. Doing it this way gives completely unreadable fonts in all the dialogs - looks likes 'Algerian' font. The fonts on the menu bars is also a very bold font. Removing the old lyx dir and installing fresh: Once again configure failed. and Lyx wouldn't even start this time - textclass.lst not found. Going back to 1.3.6... Copied the new qt-mt3.dll to lyx 1.3.6 and got the same font issues. At least reconfigure seems to work. Thanks, Johann. Stephen Harris has given me a detailed prescription on how to reproduce the textclass.lst problem. The font problem? I suspect that's simply down to the fact that the code that LyX uses to find the default fonts isn't working. Known bug. Once you specify the fonts explicitly in the Edit-Preferences dialog, you'll be OK. Anyway, clearly more work needed :( -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Anyway, clearly more work needed :( Keep up the good work! Lyx 1.3.6 is very impressive already, got 3 windows people LyXing with it. The font issue is with the actual text in the dialogs. All the controls/widgets except the buttons use the strange font. The fonts in the Lyx editor window (the ones you can set) is fine. Johann
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Johann Kellerman wrote: Anyway, clearly more work needed :( Keep up the good work! Lyx 1.3.6 is very impressive already, got 3 windows people LyXing with it. The font issue is with the actual text in the dialogs. All the controls/widgets except the buttons use the strange font. The fonts in the Lyx editor window (the ones you can set) is fine. Johann I can confirm Johann's findings. I have MiKTeX set up to query me before adding packages, and I lack some of the packages that LyX looks for in the configuration script. This will be relevant in what follows. I installed LyX 1.3.7v2 over LyX 1.3.7v1. As Johann reported, when the installer got to the point of running the configuration script, it threw up an error message. Since I got no prompts from MiKTeX to install missing packages (which I normally get when the installer runs the configuration script), I can attest to the fact that the script failed. I told the installer to go ahead and start LyX anyway. LyX started fine and retained the configuration information from the previous version (including recognition of added layouts, such as Beamer). When I exited and restarted LyX, it took a long time to start, and MiKTeX bugged me about loading missing classes, so apparently the configuration script ran that time. Again, it found the Beamer layout, so I take the configuration to have been successful. The toolbar buttons look ok, and the menus appear in a legible (if not necessarily aesthetic -- they seem to be bolded) font. All dialogs (Edit-Preferences, File-Save As) and the environment widget are written in what appears to be a (barely legible) outline font. Note that Edit-Preferences-Look and Feel-Screen fonts retained my selections from the previous version (Times New Roman, Arial and Courier), and the samples of each drawn to the right of the select boxes look correct, but everything else in that dialog might as well be hieroglyphics. I'm attaching a screen shot. (Disclaimer: Management is not responsible for dizziness, headaches or watering of eyes resulting from viewing this image.) I also did the reverse of Johann's experiment: I reinstalled LyX 1.3.6 (in a separate directory -- installation went fine) and copied the qt-mt3.dll file from that version into the 1.3.7 bin directory. That cured the font problems in 1.3.7. Paul
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
A couple of problems. When installing it over the previous 1.3.6 the configure step during setup fails and lyx has to be closed and opended again to configure. Doing it this way gives completely unreadable fonts in all the dialogs - looks likes 'Algerian' font. The fonts on the menu bars is also a very bold font. Removing the old lyx dir and installing fresh: Once again configure failed. and Lyx wouldn't even start this time - textclass.lst not found. Going back to 1.3.6... Copied the new qt-mt3.dll to lyx 1.3.6 and got the same font issues. At least reconfigure seems to work. Regards, Johann
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Johann Kellerman wrote: > A couple of problems. > > When installing it over the previous 1.3.6 the configure step during > setup fails and lyx has to be closed and opended again to configure. > Doing it this way gives completely unreadable fonts in all the > dialogs - looks likes 'Algerian' font. The fonts on the menu bars is > also a very bold font. > > Removing the old lyx dir and installing fresh: Once again configure > failed. and Lyx wouldn't even start this time - textclass.lst not > found. > > Going back to 1.3.6... > > Copied the new qt-mt3.dll to lyx 1.3.6 and got the same font issues. > At least reconfigure seems to work. Thanks, Johann. Stephen Harris has given me a detailed prescription on how to reproduce the textclass.lst problem. The font problem? I suspect that's simply down to the fact that the code that LyX uses to find the default fonts isn't working. Known bug. Once you specify the fonts explicitly in the Edit->Preferences dialog, you'll be OK. Anyway, clearly more work needed :( -- Angus
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
> Anyway, clearly more work needed :( > Keep up the good work! Lyx 1.3.6 is very impressive already, got 3 windows people LyXing with it. The font issue is with the actual text in the dialogs. All the controls/widgets except the buttons use the strange font. The fonts in the Lyx editor window (the ones you can set) is fine. Johann
Re: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX137pre
Johann Kellerman wrote: Anyway, clearly more work needed :( Keep up the good work! Lyx 1.3.6 is very impressive already, got 3 windows people LyXing with it. The font issue is with the actual text in the dialogs. All the controls/widgets except the buttons use the strange font. The fonts in the Lyx editor window (the ones you can set) is fine. Johann I can confirm Johann's findings. I have MiKTeX set up to query me before adding packages, and I lack some of the packages that LyX looks for in the configuration script. This will be relevant in what follows. I installed LyX 1.3.7v2 over LyX 1.3.7v1. As Johann reported, when the installer got to the point of running the configuration script, it threw up an error message. Since I got no prompts from MiKTeX to install missing packages (which I normally get when the installer runs the configuration script), I can attest to the fact that the script failed. I told the installer to go ahead and start LyX anyway. LyX started fine and retained the configuration information from the previous version (including recognition of added layouts, such as Beamer). When I exited and restarted LyX, it took a long time to start, and MiKTeX bugged me about loading missing classes, so apparently the configuration script ran that time. Again, it found the Beamer layout, so I take the configuration to have been successful. The toolbar buttons look ok, and the menus appear in a legible (if not necessarily aesthetic -- they seem to be bolded) font. All dialogs (Edit->Preferences, File->Save As) and the environment widget are written in what appears to be a (barely legible) outline font. Note that Edit->Preferences->Look and Feel->Screen fonts retained my selections from the previous version (Times New Roman, Arial and Courier), and the samples of each drawn to the right of the select boxes look correct, but everything else in that dialog might as well be hieroglyphics. I'm attaching a screen shot. (Disclaimer: Management is not responsible for dizziness, headaches or watering of eyes resulting from viewing this image.) I also did the reverse of Johann's experiment: I reinstalled LyX 1.3.6 (in a separate directory -- installation went fine) and copied the qt-mt3.dll file from that version into the 1.3.7 bin directory. That cured the font problems in 1.3.7. Paul
