Subject: Re: Bulleted Lists in Windows
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 18:53:58 CDT
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, David Mandelin wrote:
> I'm running the latest from CVS on Win2k. Most of the bulleted list
> styles don't work. For example, if I try "Diamond List", I get a
> copyright symbol as the bullet.
>
> Is this just a problem with my setup?
>
> I was trying to check the source, but I couldn't find it. I found the
> builtin styles in pt_PT_Styles.cpp, but I can't figure out how the
> bullet character is set.
>
> Can anyone tell me at least what file to look in? Thanks.
>
Hi David,
This is caused by the mismatch between the unix font set
"Dingbats" and the windows font "windings". As as I can tell,
"Dingbats" is not a font that is normally distributed with windows.
Many of the bullet type symbols are 8 bit numbers designed to work for
Dingbats.
The font of list labels is set with the "field-font" property. The value
"NULL" means use the font of the preceding text.
The values of the bullet type list labels are hard-wired in the method
fl_AutoNum::_getLabelStr(...) in the class fl_AutoNum.cpp.
I can think of several solutions to the bullet type problem.
1. Find a free version of a TrueType font "Dingbats" and distribute it
with abi for windows users. If there is a free Type 1 => TrueType
conversion program somewhere, you could use use the "Dingbats" font that
is distributed with the unix version of abiword.
2. Put in some "#ifdefs" to change the font for the Dingbat fonts and
glyphs to something equivalent for Windows. This has the unfortunate
consequence that *.abw generated on unix != *.abw on windows.
3. Instead of 8 bit glyph code use unicode for the glyph numbers. This
will work fine for Windows but will require a fair bit of work on unix to
implement for abiword < 1.0. The unix guys will have to manipulate
"remapGlyphs" to translate the Unicode Dingbat values to 8 bit codes and
Dingbat or symbol glyphs. This might make all abiword a bit slower for
unix. I can do this work if needed.
Anyway, have a look at the code, what do you think is best?
Other opinions welcome.
Cheers
Martin
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