On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Jose Manuel Lara Bauche Alcalde wrote:
Hello. I'm using SuSE 9.0 and LyX 1.3.2, and I can't see math symbols like greek characters or the integral symbol. If I start lyx from an xterm/konsole, the message Adding /usr/share/lyx/xfonts/ to the font path appear in the xterm, but no math symbols are displayed on the lyx window. I tried adding /usr/share/lyx/fonts in a FontPath entry in /etc/X11/XF86Config, then tried use the X font server with that entry on its configuration file, also tried to install the equivalent truetype fonts from latex-xft-fonts, and nothing works. I'm using XFree86 4.3.0.
Any ideas?
I finally solved the problem. I downloaded the file lyx-1.3.3-1_qt.src.rpm from lyx ftp site, installed it, modified a litle bit the spec file and built an rpm from it, installed it and math symbols are now right. I tried the same with version 1.3.2 with source rpms from both lyx site and from SuSE 9.0 distribution without success; with one math symbols are still missing and the other failed to build. I have no idea why this strange behaviour with version 1.3.2. I had lyx 1.3.2 on a SuSE 8.0 without problems; upgraded it to 9.0 and math symbols gone... Then upgraded lyx to 1.3.3 (using my built rpm) and math symbols are back. I have seen this on every SuSE 9.0 with lyx I have installed (5 different machines so far; that's part of my job). Anyway, what matters is that now I have an rpm with the latest version and that works fine, but I'm still in a doubt: Does any one else see the same behaviour? Or, does any one has SuSE 9.0 with lyx 1.3.2 and works fine? If any one wants my spec file just mail me and i'll send it in a mail. José Manuel.