On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 16:35, David Walser wrote: > > --- Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The abiword package is still 1.0.0, too, even though > > 1.0.2 is out, looks > > like it needs updating. > > AbiWord has, understandably, been abandoned by the > Mandrake packagers because of its insufferable font > problems. I've been reading AWN and it seems like a > lot of work has gone into fixing this, if it ever gets > completely solved, I'm sure it'll be accepted back > into main. In the meantime, you or anybody is free to > make an updated package of it and send it to Lenny, > and he'll most likely upload it when he gets back from > vacation (2 weeks from now if I remember right).
Sounds sensible. Current CVS AbiWord can apparently use Xft, though I think you need CVS Xft too, so i've not tried it out. This is apparently going to be their solution to the fonts problem, and it sounds good to me. -- adamw
