Since I already have Adobe Type 1 fonts on my machine, I wanted to substitute them for the GS equivalents included with AbiWord. I noticed some odd behaviour, and would be interested to know if there are better workarounds than the ones I have found: First, AbiWord aborts if it doesn't find the default font AbiSource-Times New Roman. Associating this name with different .pfa files in the fonts.dir avoids the problem, but is there any way to have the program look for Monotype-Times New Roman PS by default? Second, there doesn't seem to be support for a width value. For example, if I try to use Courier roman by adding the .pfa and .afm files and adding the following line to the fonts.dir com.pfa -Adobe-Courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 AbiWord defaults to Times New Roman. If however, I substitute `regular' for `medium' in com.pfa -Adobe-Courier-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 everything works fine. Finally, if I add the Times family, with the small caps and old style figure sets, I get a single family, Times, which consists of just the small caps and old style figures. The workaround is to use Times New Roman for text, and add just the small caps, etc. from the Times family. Apologies if these are known issues, though I could not find any references to them in the archives. -Jim Blevins -- Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics University of Cambridge tel: +44 1223 332334 Keynes House, Trumpington St fax: +44 1223 330253 Cambridge, CB2 1QA, UK www.rceal.cam.ac.uk/
