Re: Mac OS X and fonts [and GTK fonts]

From: Laszlo Hunyadi <hunyadi_at_ling.arts.unideb.hu>
Date: Wed Jan 10 2007 - 19:20:23 CET

Thank you for the feedback, Andy.

I hope mentioning GTK in the subject will generate further replies and
suggestions.

Laszlo

On szerda, jan. 10, 2007, at 18:45 Europe/Budapest, Andy Korvemaker
wrote:

>
>>>> I would like to know how AbiWord handles Mac OS fonts so that it
>>>> could somehow be told the concordance program as well.
>>> Which version of AbiWord are you using on your Mac? Is it the OS X
>>> version, or one installed with either Fink or DarwinPorts?
>> I am using the X11 version installed with Fink.
>
> Sorry for the delay.
>
> Disclaimer: I'm not a developer. I'm a user. I'm also on a Mac, and I'm
> somewhat familiar with Fink.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, the GTK version of AbiWord distributed
> with
> Fink does not do anything special to deal with fonts. It simply uses
> whatever fonts are available to GTK via the normal means (the same as
> on
> Linux), whatever that may be.
>
> The only additional thing I'm aware of in Fink is a package called
> 'applesystemfonts' which makes TrueType fonts from OS X available to
> X11. However, once it's installed, any program that accesses X11 fonts
> (however that's done) should have access to them without doing anything
> special.
>
> So, I don't know what may be causing this behavior. I've changed the
> subject line to try to grab the attention of someone who might have a
> better idea.
>
> Andy
> --
> Andy Korvemaker
> http://andyland.ca
>
>
Received on Wed Jan 10 19:21:18 2007

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