From: Bronislaw Baraniecki (bemak@plejada.it.pl)
Date: Mon Apr 08 2002 - 14:32:21 EDT
---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_STATICABI_REQUIRE_PEER_ICONVinstall
>> >
>> > (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>
> -------------------------------
>
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