Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Buchan Milne wrote:
>
>
>>According to the OO.o mailing list, OO.o is supposed to check font paths
>>using the output of /usr/sbin/chkfontpath or chkfontpath (which
>>apparently gives all the xfs font paths under Redhat). This appears not
>>to work. (I haven't been able to test this myself)
>>
>
> What doesn't work? Here, /usr/sbin/chkfontpath actually lists me the
> available font paths.
>
OO.o has never used any TTFs configured in xfs (whether from an OO.o
official build or the RPM). It would only see them if I hacked the
soffice script. It would be nice to see this working.
>
>>A work-around is to modify the /usr/lib/openoffice/soffice startup
>>script to tell it about more font paths (obviously the chkfontpath
>>solution would be preferred). See the attached patch for how to get the
>>drakfont ttfs working.
>>
>
> I used another approach by defining SAL_FONTPATH_USER variable for -2mdk.
> Probably should it be expanded to the result of chkfontpath in -3mdk.
>
SAL_FONTPATH_USER should be fine.
>
>>2)Spell checking is broken
>>OO.o should support spell-cheching in en_US out the box. Attempting
>>spell checking results in all words being marked as incorrectly spelt,
>>and the following error message:
>>
>
> Yes, known issue. Will probably be addressed in -3mdk.
>
>
>>I believe the files should be copied from
>>/usr/lib/openoffice/share/wordbook/english/ to
>>~/.openoffice/user/wordbook during setup, but in the rpm, the only files
>>supplied are:
>>
>
> This is an OOo /net setup bug. Dictionaries are under
> /usr/lib/openoffice/user/wordbook/* whereas they should be in
> ~/.openoffice/user/wordbook/.
>
>
This works from the official OO.o 641c build (using setup -net). I see
that en_US.dic and en_US.aff are not in /usr/lib/openoffice/wordbook/ at
all?
>>Otherwise, it works very well. Some issues introduced with the official
>>OO.o build with gcc-3.0.3 have been solved (probably due to using
>>gcc-3.0.4), such as the Insert->Frame problem.
>>
>
> Yes, that works here. What were the other issues? I still don't see the
> templates and I am wondering if they are supposed to be in OOo actually...
AFAIK there are no templates shipped with the source, but the template
functionality should work (it worked for me since 641 both windows and
linux). ie, you should be able to use templates you (or others) have
created. We have a template directory shared out by smb and NFS, which
we were using in SO5.2, which works from OO.o641 (haven't been able to
test the rpm yet though).
You can find some templates here:
http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/doc/Samples_Templates/User/template/index.html
I don't see any license with them, but they were specifically created to
be ditributed with OO.o at some stage.
>
> Thank you for testing the package.
>
Thanks for packaging it. Please let me know when you have got some more
features to test.
Buchan
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