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Re: LyX unreadable in 64-bit Cygwin


Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 3/19/2015 12:55 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 19:45 -0400, Will Parsons wrote:
>>> I recently installed 64-bit Cygwin along side of my 32-bit Cygwin
>>> installation, and find that all the menus show math symbols rather
>>> than text, making LyX unusable.  Note that if I specify a file on the
>>> command line, the contents show up fine - it's just the menus/toolbars
>>> that are unreadable.  This problem does not happen under 32-bit
>>> Cygwin.
>>
>> I've seen this before on other systems; it just means you need to
>> install some fonts (I just don't remember which atm).
>
> Will,
>
> on my 64 bit system, it works
> and I have only these fonts installed
>
> font-adobe-dpi75                        1.0.2-1
> font-adobe-utopia-dpi75                 1.0.3-1
> font-alias                              1.0.3-1
> font-bh-dpi75                           1.0.2-1
> font-bh-lucidatypewriter-dpi75          1.0.2-1
> font-bitstream-dpi75                    1.0.2-1
> font-bitstream-type1                    1.0.2-1
> font-cursor-misc                        1.0.2-1
> font-encodings                          1.0.4-1
> font-misc-misc                          1.1.1-1
> font-tektronix-misc                     2.6-4
> ghostscript-fonts-other                 6.0-1
> ghostscript-fonts-std                   8.11-1
> texlive-collection-fontsrecommended
>
> Looking at strace output it seems to use only
>
> font-bitstream-type1-1.0.2-1
> font-adobe-dpi75-1.0.2-1
> and its own fonts in
> /usr/share/lyx/fonts/

Thanks.  I've installed a few fonts (including adobe and bh), and all
seems to be well now.  (As an aside, should LyX pull in some minimal
set as dependencies, or is this not really practicable?)

-- 
Will


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