Devanagari characters input distortion

[abhiram lohit]

Hi,

I recently installed Lyx 2.1.1 and set it up to type Devanagari. I use a
Sanskrit QWERTY keyboard to directly type Sanskrit characters into the Lyx
file.

I get the correct PDF output file, however the UI display of the vowels
symbols and conjuncts is not correct. There are weird spaces with circles
that have the symbols and these overlap with the next syllable and display
is very jumbled. This makes it very hard to locate errors and edit the
text. Can you please suggest a solution?

I don't know if this is a bug in Lyx?

Thanks!

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Post by abhiram lohit
Hi,
I recently installed Lyx 2.1.1 and set it up to type Devanagari. I use a
Sanskrit QWERTY keyboard to directly type Sanskrit characters into the Lyx
file.
I get the correct PDF output file, however the UI display of the vowels
symbols and conjuncts is not correct. There are weird spaces with circles
that have the symbols and these overlap with the next syllable and display
is very jumbled. This makes it very hard to locate errors and edit the
text. Can you please suggest a solution?
I don't know if this is a bug in Lyx?

LyX has known deficiencies with ligature display. In the development version
(what will become LyX 2.2), this is fixed. Since the fix required a complete
rewrite of the character painter, it cannot be backported to 2.1.x.

Jürgen

Post by abhiram lohit
Thanks!