From: Blue Lizard (webmaster@dofty.zzn.com)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 15:09:27 EDT
*points at 1101*, we dont question miracles around here =P
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 14:32, Bronislaw Baraniecki wrote:
> ---Reply to mail from Alan Horkan about All words marked misspelled (fwd)
>
> No one need any more. The problem with AbiWord fonts other then
> iso8859-1 was finaly (?!) explained on <abiword-user@abisource.com>
> list. But what does it mean?
>
> When I suddenly saw my ISO-8859-2 ttf-fonts in AW openned combo box, I
> shouted EUREKA! I still do not understand why they are there? But I
> KNOW why my fonts are there: thanks to magic name "SVGFontsType1" of
> new created dir for original abiword fonts >
> /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts/SVGFontsType1. This is a dir where I moved on
> all fonts from .../fonts directory. After that, and only after that I
> put my ttf-fonts stuff in /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts dir. Doing next all
> thoese things with "ttmkfdir", "fonts.scale", "fonts.dir", runnig
> "ttftool" and "tthadmin.sh" (as_I_did_many_times_ago without succes).
>
> So, why AbiWord suddenly accepted my ISO-8859-2 fonts? NOt because I
> only now decided to cearefuly read abiword's docs like "Unix_Fonts_and_AbiWord"
> or "Locales_Other_then_Latin-1" (I did it before, printed them and was
> keeping on my eyes). NO, nothing of that.
>
> It's happened only because of that magic name "SVGFontsType1". There is
> no need to creat additional subdirs like ../fonts/pl_PL or
> ./fonts/pl_PL.ISO-8859-2 as is explained in above docs, or as others
> pointed on the lists.
>
> The magic name was posted on abiword-users list by Bernard Lambey
> <lambey.b@free.fr> Great Thanks! to him and his other Helpers!
>
> As I said, I do not understand why this helps. I am not a diveloper, I
> am not a highly experienced linuxier, I'm only an ordinary Linux user
> who wants to enjoy AbiWord wordprocessor. But does it all means that to
> disclose the sicrets of AbiWord configurations we have to construct a
> new type of ENIGMA machine?
>
> My best greetings to AbiWord developers!
> And once again: Great Thanks for Anne Parker, Gabe de Jong (as was
> mentioned in lambey's mail) and Bernard Lambey himself for posting his
> great discovery!
>
> PS. I'm on RedHat7.2, abiword-0.99.3.tar.gz Polish language envirement.
>
> Bronek
>
> >
> > Can some one please help this guy.
> >
> > i tried
> > im lost
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 17:34:47 +0200
> > From: Bronek Baraniecki <bemak@plejada.it.pl>
> > To: Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie>
> > Subject: Re: All words marked misspelled
> >
> > Alan Horkan wrote:
> >>
> >> Keep it simple. use prebuilt binaries if possible, the gtk binaries are
> >> simpler than the gnome ones.
> >>
> >> There are different varieties of linux, debian, redhat, slackware?
> >> why compile from source when there are perfectly good binaries available?
> >> (which leads me to suspect you are not using RedHat).
> >>
> >> You should take this up with the developers, or the developer list or on
> >> IRC.
> >>
> >> the user list is intended more for people who use abiword rather than
> >> building, developing, or patching.
> >>
> >> i mentioned that downloads can be found on sourceforge
> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/abiword
> >> the abisource website is updated a little less often.
> >>
> >> (please excuse me if i seem irratated in this email, im not annoyed at you
> >> but i am extremely annoyed at one of my lecturers who is arrogant and
> >> condescending. he has given us an online bookstore project and the
> >> fucking moron called it Ebook. retard. stupid stupid ignorant retard.)
> >>
> >> Sincerely
> >> Alan Horkan
> >>
> >> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 abiword@pongonova.net wrote:
> >>
> >> > Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 00:36:29 -0500
> >> > From: abiword@pongonova.net
> >> > To: Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie>
> >> > Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
> >> > Subject: Re: All words marked misspelled
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:03:50PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > for me to be better able to help you
> >> > > it helps if you say what Operating System you are running abiword on.
> >> > > (although from your email i would guess you are using Linux).
> >> >
> >> > Sorry...Linux/i386.
> >> >
> >> > > i would appreciate if you would please try a newer version
> >> >
> >> > Just tried 0.99.3 (couldn't find a tarball of 0.99.4 on the website). Built
> > with
> >> > this:
> >> >
> >> > sudo make UNIX_CAN_BUILD_STATIC=1 ABI_REQUIRE_PEER_ICONV=1 install
> >> >
> >> > (Dynamic executable fails with unresolved symbol, z_errmsg).
> >> >
> >> > Had to patch ap_UnixApp.cpp and ap_UnixDialog_New.cpp due to "struct
> > *dirent" being
> >> > declared as const, then passed to a function looking for a non-const pointer
> > (bugs
> >> > 3091, 2886). Also a pow2 fix (bug 2885).
> >> >
> >> > Dictionary was installed as part of AW installation:
> >> >
> >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2156456 Apr 8 00:20 american.hash
> >> >
> >> > Everything's still showing up as misspelled (except for the word "a").
> >> >
> >> > --Brian
> >> >
> >> > >
> >> > > 0.99.4 was recently released, 0.99.5 has been tagged and binaries should
> >> > > be available on sourceforge.net very soon if not already.
> >> > > and v1.0 should be out anytime in the next few weeks.
> >> > >
> >> > > you must make sure you have exactly the right spellcheck dictionary.
> >> > > just because abiword knows it is there does not guarantee that it is the
> >> > > right dictionary.
> >> > >
> >> > > There are special dictionaries provided on sourceforge as some
> >> > > distributions do not provide dictionaries suitable for abiword and the
> >> > > dictionaries are different on x86/Intel/AMD hardware and
> >> > > Motorola/PowerPC
> >> > > hardware.
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> > Hey, people,
> >
> > I really do not understand what is all aboout. Before misspelling I need
> > AbiWord to accept my language env and fonts encoding ISO-8859-2, letting
> > me to write and print!
> >
> > I did so much work with fonts dir, fonts path, LANG env, ttftool and
> > ttfadmin.sh and much more without any good result.
> >
> > Are there a real work around to this problem?
> >
> > Bronek
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bronis³aw Bruno Baraniecki
> > <bemak@plejada.it.pl>
> > -------------------------------
> >
>
> ---End reply
> --
> Bronislaw B. Baraniecki
> <bemak@plejada.it.pl>
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