After some effort (thanks to everyone who helped out on IRC) I got HEAD to build with xft, and I now have pretty fonts on the screen. Yay!
However, Abi only seems to be aware (in the font drop down menu and dialog) of a fairly small subset of the fonts I have installed. Other applications are aware of them, so they are there. Oddly, Arial and Times New Roman are among the fonts Abi can't see, although it can handle documents containing them perfectly well. Is this a bug in Abi, or is my system misconfigured? -- David Chart
