Well here's another chapter in the endless pathetic saga of fonts/bidi in abiword...
I have downloaded the latest source (version 0.99.2) and compiled with bidi and gnome support. To compile it, I used the instructions from the BUILD (not BUILD.TXT !) file. I did /autogen.sh /configure --prefix=/opt --enable-bidi --enable-gnome make make install surprisingly, it worked... compiling went smoothly. I then went to the tough part - making my window ttf hebrew ariel font work. I followed the instructions in /docs/AbiWord_and_Unix_Fonts.zabw: I have created a subdirectory /opt/share/AbiSuite/fonts/ISO-8859-8 and put there the ariel ttf fonts. I created an appropriate fonts.dir + fonts.scale files, where there is only the ISO-8859-8 encoding for each font. Then, I have executed the script /ttfadmin.sh /opt/share/AbiSuite/fonts/ISO-8859-8 ISO-8859-8 to create some other font files (for printing?) Finally, I set my LANG, LC_TYPE, LC_ALL to he_IL.ISO-8859-8 (In their instructions they used the encoding iw_IL.ISO-8859-8 - but what is iw ???) and run abiword. I get this message: "Abiword was not able to the X font path. This does not mean that thre is anything wrong with your system, but you will need to modify your font path manually. Please see 'Unix Font Path Problem' in the FAQ section of the Abiword help file for more detailed information, including instructions on how to turn this warning off." BTW: This message also showed up even *before* I tried to install the hebrew fonts - i.e., before I created the subdirectory etc... Of course, the FAQ staff is useless as all the documentation of this project is not syncronized with itself... The program still runs... However: I cannot see the hebrew ariel font! I mean I don't see it in the list of available fonts. I only see ariel font which is supplied by abisoft. Consequently, When I switch to hebrew keyboard and I try to type - I get empty circles instead of the letters of our holly language. The bidi is working - I mean it changes the typing direction etc.. but still I cannot see hebrew. When I look into the script of abiword that add the fonts path - I see it does everything ok. I see that it actually does the xset fp+ to the subdirectory with the hebrew fonts. If I issue this command manually - I can see my hebrew fonts on gfontsel - which means that the fonts and fonts.dir are OK. Y My system is: Mandrake 8.1 . Any ideas????? Thanks, Itai. P.S.: I am a semi-newbie. Please try to be as clear and as unambiguous as possible. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
