Subject: Re: Thai
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Sun Dec 24 2000 - 02:29:35 CST
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Pierre Abbat wrote:
The approach you describe is wrong for adding locale-specific fonts since it
requires hacking configuration files, disallows using multuplie locales by the
same user, and not of plug'n'play kind.
> >Another idea occured to me, too. Assuming there's a better way to
> >add fonts to abiword (which doesn't involve this weird merging of
> >fonts.dir files), perhaps we should start making abiword-language
> >packages, containing fonts (and translations?), which can be dropped
> >on top of abiword so that people can get their own language going with
> >a minimum of effort.
>
> Look in ~/.AbiSuite for the AbiWord.Profile file. It should have lines that
> look like this:
>
> UnixFontPath="fonts"
> UseSuffix="1"
> />
>
> <Scheme
> name="_custom_"
> OptionsTabNumber="2"
> UnixFontPath="fonts;/usr/share/fonts/ttf/windows"
> />
>
> <Recent
> max="4"
> />
>
> If the _custom_ scheme does not exist, add it. If it does exist, add the
> UnixFontPath to it. It can display TrueType fonts but it cannot print them
> without an afm file and crashes in the attempt.
>
> phma
>
Best regards,
-Vlad
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