I have installed the Abiword GTK version 0.9.6.1 linux i386 RPM distribution, and although the program seems to function well in most respects, I have a couple of questions which do not appear to be answered in the FAQ file.
How do I enter "typographical" quotes and dashes, that is to say, different opening and closing quotes, and different glyphs for hyphen, en and em dashes? When using the Times New Roman font, for example, I find that the length of the hyphen that appears on the screen is shorter than the one that prints, and so text is actually aligned differently on the print compared to what is seen on-screen. I actually have a similar problem with Sun Staroffice which I have also tried on this system. (In fact in Staroffice, I can get the typographical dashes, but the em dash, for example, seems to have incorrect metrics and overlaps the next character when printed--while on-screen, it is not displayed at all!) Perhaps this indicates that the above problems are not directly related to Abiword. Nevertheless, the problem is manifested in Abiword. I installed the abiword fonts, and so I assume abiword is using those fonts (it does not appear to list other fonts on the system), which would indicate that the problem does not appear to be associated with faulty fonts on my system. (Unless the X server (XFree86) is perhaps using a different font to the one Abiword is using?) The X server is running on the same host as Abiword, and I see that Abiword has added its fonts to the X font path, so I assume the same fonts are available to X and Abiword. Unfortunately I am not entirely familiar with the internals of the postscript and X font systems, so it is beyond my ability to fully diagnose the problem. Therefore I hope someone more familiar with these issues might be able to explain what is happening here, or offer some advice on how to diagnose the problem. All advice is appreciated. Regards, -- Mario Becroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://gem.win.co.nz/mb/ ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
