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


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