[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#316906: lyx: Changing temp folder path causes change of default fonts.

[Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer]

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Does LyX explicitly compile a dependency against freetype 2.1.x?  Does
it map fonts against fonts.conf where it looks up your user defined font
references/family names, so on and so forth or does it compile with a
dependency against type1 fonts via X11?

- Marc

Andreas Neudecker wrote:

>Package: lyx
>Version: 1.3.4-2
>Severity: normal
>
>
>
>Hi.
>
>
>I was just checking out lyx again after a long time.
>When I found the setting for the temp folder to point to /tmp I changed it to
>/home/<username>/.tmp, my default folder for temp stuff.
>
>When I saved this, the text in my test document had suddenly and inexplicably 
>changed from Times to some weird italics font. So I exited lyx and deleted the 
>whole ~/.lyx folder and tried again. I found, that starting from scratch 
>changing (and saving) the setting of the temp folder causes the 
>~/.lyx/preferences file to be written -- with the weird font set as screen 
>default for roman and sans fonts:
>
>---8<------------------------------------------
>#
># SCREEN & FONTS SECTION ############################
>#
>
>\screen_font_roman "Abberancy"
>\screen_font_sans "Abberancy"
>\screen_font_typewriter "Courier"
>
>---8<------------------------------------------
>
>
>This is certainly not good: an unexpected configuration change that badly 
>affects readability on the screen. "Abberancy" happens to be the first font in 
>the alphabetical list of installed fonts, while Courier apparently is the first
>monospace font in the list.
>
>After my opinion the default fonts should not be changed unless the user 
>explicitly requires it. And the default fonts should be a reasonable choice. In 
>fact, I could not find the fonts that were originally used -- which ones are they?
>
>
>Kind regards
>
>
>Andreas
>
>
>-- System Information:
>Debian Release: 3.1
>Architecture: i386 (i686)
>Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-386
>Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
>
>Versions of packages lyx depends on:
>ii  debconf                    1.4.30.13     Debian configuration management sy
>ii  groff                      1.18.1.1-7    GNU troff text-formatting system
>ii  imagemagick                6:6.0.6.2-2.4 Image manipulation programs
>ii  libtiff-tools              3.7.2-3       TIFF manipulation and conversion t
>ii  lyx-common                 1.3.4-2       High Level Word Processor - common
>ii  lyx-qt                     1.3.4-2       High Level Word Processor - Qt fro
>ii  mime-support               3.28-1        MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
>ii  preview-latex-style        0.9.1-1       LaTeX style files for editor embed
>ii  tetex-bin                  2.0.2-30      The teTeX binary files
>ii  tetex-extra                2.0.2c-8      Additional library files of teTeX
>
>-- debconf information:
>  lyx/upgrade-notice:
>
>
>  
>

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