G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 06:31 -0500, Irv Cobb wrote:
I use Mepis Linux on my systems, which, once installed, is pretty much
Debian.
Often I need to cut and paste Greek text from the BibleTime application
into OpenOffice.org writer, where my needs require me to mix the Greek
text with English. This worked fine prior to the introduction of OOo2.0
into Debian. Even then, one could paste Greek text cut from BibleTime
into OpenOffice 1.1.x. However, pasting into OOo2.0 results in nothing
but a series of question marks instead of Greek letters. This is true of
the working builds of 2.0, the .rpm version of 2.0, and the version of
2.0 that is currently in the repositories.
Your symptom sounds like a missing Greek font. I have noticed with 2.0.1
that fonts may or may not be available even though they are in the
repository <path_to>/openoffice.org2/share/fonts For example, I have
used FontOOo to install Times and Times New Roman and Times is not
available even with a raw install. Perhaps you have encountered this
too. If true then I will be very happy to start an issue.
Nope. I suspect this is a system-level issue with cut and paste. It's
likely an issue for the Debian developers. I'm hoping someone here knows
a fix or can at least point me to the specific problem. Would like to
point it out to Debian once I understand it a little better myself.
My documents are all in the same font (I use Georgia, sometimes
Times-Roman) and display both Greek and English alphabets in that one
font. I think this is a function of "unicode"? So it's not a missing
font issue.
1.1.5 doesn't appear in the Debian repositories using Synaptic. Anyway,
installing it wouldn't fix my issues with the whole thing being
"awkward, time-consuming, and just not very elegant."
Irv
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