On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 06:45:29PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm having problems getting Big5 to work with abiword. I have xcin up > and running. I can enter pinyin in abiword, but the resulting character > is wrong, i.e. the font is wrong -- How do I select a a Big5 font from > within abiword? > > I tried adding the two font.dir files below, but that did not help. Any > clues? >
You sure you added the right filenames? They are 'zh-TW', 'zh-CN' with '-' instead of '_'. And you have to set LANG to zh_TW.Big5. If you want English menu, set LC_MESSAGE to C or en_US, whatever. > > > > I did get cxterm working entering pinyin with tones -- totally cool! So > > > I can edit .tex directly, but a WYSIWYG editor would be perferable. > > > > Try Abiword. The latest version in Debian already supports CJK. You do > > need to add two font config files though. > > > > /usr/share/abisuite/fonts/zh-TW/fonts.dir: > > > > 8 > > Arphic-MingB5-B5-H, -Arphic-AR PL Mingti2L > > Big5-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0, 880, 120, 1000 ... > > > > /usr/share/abisuite/fonts/zh-CN/fonts.dir: > > > > 8 > > Arphic-MingGB-GB-EUC-H, -arphic-ar pl sungtil > > gb-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0, 880, 120, 1000 ... -- Best regard hashao
