On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Itai Arad wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I am trying (realy hard) to get bidi-abiword work on my Mandrake 8.0
> linux.
>
> So I compiled abiword-0.7.14-2 (with bidi enabled) and installed it
> just as they say you should.
>
> HOWEVER: I cannot get the hebrew to work!!
>
> I wish to work with *unicode* hebrew. So I this is what I did:
>
> 1. Modified XF86Config-4 file so it would have hebrew keymap (according
> to the instructions in IGLU)
> 2. Defined LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
>
> 3. Copied some ttf fonts from Window (Arial + Courier New)
I suggest that you also get Times New Roman
> to the
> AbiSuite/font directory and added only the iso-10646-1 entries to the
> fonts.dir, fonts.scale files
How have you created the entries for them? Does ttmkfdir extract
iso10646-1 encodings as well?
>
> Now when I run abiword I can use these ttf fonts only in english. When I
> pass to hebrew (pressing left-shfit + right-shift), I get some undifined
> symbols on the screen. However, the BiDi mechanisem seems to work well -
> that is, the direction of writing changes as it should.
>
> I think it actually idetifies the hebrew letters becuase when I save the
> file as utf8, and browse it in an utf-8 enabled xterm - I see just what I
> wrote.
>
> However, I cannot see it on the screen...
>
> btw: the utf8 enabled xterm works just fine, and shows the hebrew
> letters....
>
>
> (*) I also tried to put the ttf fonts in a UTF-8 subdirectory under
> AbiSuite/fonts (If I understood the vauge instructions of abiword) - but
> then abiword did not recognize them...
It needs to be in a spesific subdirectory: he-IL.UTF-8 . Note the "-"
"""
instead of "_".
Actually, I suggest that this directory will be a symlink to a directory
that X uses (either idrectly or indirectly through xfs).
Maybe try removing all the fonts from the main directory, to prevent name
clashes: Maybe it already has another "Arial".
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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