On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Itai Arad wrote: > Well here's another chapter in the endless pathetic saga of fonts/bidi in > abiword... > > I have downloaded the latest source (version 0.99.2) and compiled with bidi > and gnome support. To compile it, I used the instructions from the BUILD > (not BUILD.TXT !) file. I did > /autogen.sh > /configure --prefix=/opt --enable-bidi --enable-gnome > make > make install > > surprisingly, it worked... compiling went smoothly. > > I then went to the tough part - making my window ttf hebrew ariel font work. > > I followed the instructions in /docs/AbiWord_and_Unix_Fonts.zabw: > I have created a subdirectory > /opt/share/AbiSuite/fonts/ISO-8859-8 > and put there the ariel ttf fonts. I created an appropriate fonts.dir + > fonts.scale files, where there is only the ISO-8859-8 encoding for each font.
(BTW: I suggest you put in Times New Roman as well, as it looks much better printed. But we'll worry about that later) > > Then, I have executed the script > /ttfadmin.sh /opt/share/AbiSuite/fonts/ISO-8859-8 ISO-8859-8 > > to create some other font files (for printing?) > > Finally, Iset my LANG, LC_TYPE, LC_ALL to he_IL.ISO-8859-8 (In their > instructions they used the encoding iw_IL.ISO-8859-8 - but what is iw ???) iw is the old two-letter code (ISO-639?) for Hebrew. "Naturally" it means IWrit (Ivrit). "he" is the newer one (in the newer version of the same standard) > and run abiword. > > I get this message: > > "Abiword was not able to the X font path. > This does not mean that thre is anything wrong with your > system, but you will need to modify your font path manually. > Please see 'Unix Font Path Problem' in the FAQ section of > the Abiword help file for more detailed information, including > instructions on how to turn this warning off." > > > BTW: This message also showed up even *before* I tried to install the > hebrew fonts - i.e., before I created the subdirectory etc... > > > Of course, the FAQ staff is useless as all the documentation of this > project is not syncronized with itself... > > The program still runs... However: I cannot see the hebrew ariel font! I > mean I don't see it in the list of available fonts. I only see ariel font > which is supplied by abisoft. Have you tried to remove this font from the fonts.dir of the fonts in the original AbiWord directory? (Not an optimal solution, I know) > > Consequently, When I switch to hebrew keyboard and I try to type - I get > empty circles instead of the letters of our holly language. > > The bidi is working - I mean it changes the typing direction etc.. but > still I cannot see hebrew. > > When I look into the script of abiword that add the fonts path - I see it > does everything ok. I see that it actually does the xset fp+ to the > subdirectory with the hebrew fonts. If I issue this command manually - I > can see my hebrew fonts on gfontsel - which means that the fonts and > fonts.dir are OK. Y It should have also created Type1 fonts of those TTFs. > > > My system is: Mandrake 8.1 . Do you have locales-he installed? I managed to get it working for me (I only set LANG, IIRC). I'm not exactly sure what exactly I had to do to the fonts directory to make this work. -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
