*points at 1101*, we dont question miracles around here =P On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 14:32, Bronislaw Baraniecki wrote: > ---Reply to mail from Alan Horkan about All words marked misspelled (fwd) > > No one need any more. The problem with AbiWord fonts other then > iso8859-1 was finaly (?!) explained on <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > list. But what does it mean? > > When I suddenly saw my ISO-8859-2 ttf-fonts in AW openned combo box, I > shouted EUREKA! I still do not understand why they are there? But I > KNOW why my fonts are there: thanks to magic name "SVGFontsType1" of > new created dir for original abiword fonts > > /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts/SVGFontsType1. This is a dir where I moved on > all fonts from .../fonts directory. After that, and only after that I > put my ttf-fonts stuff in /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts dir. Doing next all > thoese things with "ttmkfdir", "fonts.scale", "fonts.dir", runnig > "ttftool" and "tthadmin.sh" (as_I_did_many_times_ago without succes). > > So, why AbiWord suddenly accepted my ISO-8859-2 fonts? NOt because I > only now decided to cearefuly read abiword's docs like "Unix_Fonts_and_AbiWord" > or "Locales_Other_then_Latin-1" (I did it before, printed them and was > keeping on my eyes). NO, nothing of that. > > It's happened only because of that magic name "SVGFontsType1". There is > no need to creat additional subdirs like ../fonts/pl_PL or > ./fonts/pl_PL.ISO-8859-2 as is explained in above docs, or as others > pointed on the lists. > > The magic name was posted on abiword-users list by Bernard Lambey > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Great Thanks! to him and his other Helpers! > > As I said, I do not understand why this helps. I am not a diveloper, I > am not a highly experienced linuxier, I'm only an ordinary Linux user > who wants to enjoy AbiWord wordprocessor. But does it all means that to > disclose the sicrets of AbiWord configurations we have to construct a > new type of ENIGMA machine? > > My best greetings to AbiWord developers! > And once again: Great Thanks for Anne Parker, Gabe de Jong (as was > mentioned in lambey's mail) and Bernard Lambey himself for posting his > great discovery! > > PS. I'm on RedHat7.2, abiword-0.99.3.tar.gz Polish language envirement. > > Bronek > > > > > Can some one please help this guy. > > > > i tried > > im lost > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 17:34:47 +0200 > > From: Bronek Baraniecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: All words marked misspelled > > > > Alan Horkan wrote: > >> > >> Keep it simple. use prebuilt binaries if possible, the gtk binaries are > >> simpler than the gnome ones. > >> > >> There are different varieties of linux, debian, redhat, slackware? > >> why compile from source when there are perfectly good binaries available? > >> (which leads me to suspect you are not using RedHat). > >> > >> You should take this up with the developers, or the developer list or on > >> IRC. > >> > >> the user list is intended more for people who use abiword rather than > >> building, developing, or patching. > >> > >> i mentioned that downloads can be found on sourceforge > >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/abiword > >> the abisource website is updated a little less often. > >> > >> (please excuse me if i seem irratated in this email, im not annoyed at you > >> but i am extremely annoyed at one of my lecturers who is arrogant and > >> condescending. he has given us an online bookstore project and the > >> fucking moron called it Ebook. retard. stupid stupid ignorant retard.) > >> > >> Sincerely > >> Alan Horkan > >> > >> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> > Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 00:36:29 -0500 > >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > Subject: Re: All words marked misspelled > >> > > >> > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:03:50PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > >> > > > >> > > for me to be better able to help you > >> > > it helps if you say what Operating System you are running abiword on. > >> > > (although from your email i would guess you are using Linux). > >> > > >> > Sorry...Linux/i386. > >> > > >> > > i would appreciate if you would please try a newer version > >> > > >> > Just tried 0.99.3 (couldn't find a tarball of 0.99.4 on the website). Built > > with > >> > this: > >> > > >> > sudo make UNIX_CAN_BUILD_STATIC=1 ABI_REQUIRE_PEER_ICONV=1 install > >> > > >> > (Dynamic executable fails with unresolved symbol, z_errmsg). > >> > > >> > Had to patch ap_UnixApp.cpp and ap_UnixDialog_New.cpp due to "struct > > *dirent" being > >> > declared as const, then passed to a function looking for a non-const pointer > > (bugs > >> > 3091, 2886). Also a pow2 fix (bug 2885). > >> > > >> > Dictionary was installed as part of AW installation: > >> > > >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2156456 Apr 8 00:20 american.hash > >> > > >> > Everything's still showing up as misspelled (except for the word "a"). > >> > > >> > --Brian > >> > > >> > > > >> > > 0.99.4 was recently released, 0.99.5 has been tagged and binaries should > >> > > be available on sourceforge.net very soon if not already. > >> > > and v1.0 should be out anytime in the next few weeks. > >> > > > >> > > you must make sure you have exactly the right spellcheck dictionary. > >> > > just because abiword knows it is there does not guarantee that it is the > >> > > right dictionary. > >> > > > >> > > There are special dictionaries provided on sourceforge as some > >> > > distributions do not provide dictionaries suitable for abiword and the > >> > > dictionaries are different on x86/Intel/AMD hardware and > >> > > Motorola/PowerPC > >> > > hardware. > >> > > >> > > > > > Hey, people, > > > > I really do not understand what is all aboout. Before misspelling I need > > AbiWord to accept my language env and fonts encoding ISO-8859-2, letting > > me to write and print! > > > > I did so much work with fonts dir, fonts path, LANG env, ttftool and > > ttfadmin.sh and much more without any good result. > > > > Are there a real work around to this problem? > > > > Bronek > > > > > > -- > > Bronis�aw Bruno Baraniecki > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ------------------------------- > > > > ---End reply > -- > Bronislaw B. Baraniecki > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ----- > Czym jest b�g? --- Wszystkim.(Pindar) > > --------------------------------- > > > > > ----------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. >
