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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Abiword in Bl2 was Re: dosemu? wp51?
  • Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:47:16 +0000 (UTC)

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, David Moberg wrote:

On 8/18/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, David Moberg wrote:

I thought that BL3 came with libX11.so.6.

Mine does not have it. Abiword still works but maybe xset it not needed.

Are you sure? In BL3, what happens when you ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xset?

LibX11.so.6 > not found.
It needs also libc.so.5. BL2 Xset needs all sorts of other things.


Where do I get a wrapper shell script?

It comes with the BL3 abiword.tgz package. It is located at
/usr/local/AbiSuite/bin/AbiWord.

I get the same error message using the script as with plain abiword.

abiword just calls the script, which is supposed to set up those fonts.

How do I add font paths on the command line (for Xves or xfbdev - which
works better with Tseng as I was able to exit three different ways without
crashing)?

Xserver(1) says:

...
-fp fontPath
sets the search path for fonts. This path is a comma separated list of
directories which the X server searches for font databases.
...

So Xvesa -fp /fontpath should do what you want.
Xset would not work in BL2. Error message which I reported earlier.


Make sure that /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts contains the fonts and that
there
are no broken links or missing fonts.dir/alias files.

Lots of fonts there including fonts.dir and fonts.scale but not
fonts.alias

My mistake. It is not needed anyway.

(which I do have in BL3 in another fonts directory under
X11R6). Do I need to copy that over?

No.

It did not contain Times.

Because it wasn't intended for the Abiword fonts.

AbiWord should work now. You can run the actual binary with
/usr/local/AbiSuite//bin/AbiWord_s (but you will probably need to
use the AbiWord script to set up the environment variables).

It does not, maybe because xset fp+ does not seem to work.
Have you a copy of static Abiword to try with BL2?

Yes, but I don't think that I will be able to tell you anything more than
what you already know. Sometime I will test the SW71 xset with Xvesa
and verify that there is a problem there.

The problem was fixed by using xsvga and xterm instead. (And now I can switch back to rxvt by copying rgb.txt from BL3 to BL2 with 'Black' added).


Does Abiword really need 2.4MB of fonts?

Yes, unless an alternate method (as you suggest) will work.

Could I reduce this to just one monospaced and one proportional font
and set up some alias to point to these?

Maybe. I will try to modify the fonts.* files and report back.

Have fun. I can't work on this again until October, we are going on a trip.

Thanks for all of the lovely programs you compiled and the help with everything.

David
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