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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> I installed fonts from the regular SW71 packages and have 
> a font directory with four subdirectories.  Where would 
> I point Abiword?  

You don't point AbiWord at the font directory.  You point
the font directory at AbiWord.

> ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/75dpi /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts ?

ln -s /usr/local/AbiSuit/fonts  75dpi (or whatever)

However, in order to do that, you have to sacrifice the contents
of that directory (the link won't take until you have deleted
the directory).

> Or are you saying AbiWord comes with its own fonts, 

Yes.  AbiWord only works with its own fonts (and they must 
be registered by Xvesa).  If you were using an ordinary 
Xserver, you could simply add the path to the AbiWord fonts 
in /etc/XF86Config.  But Xvesa is hardwired to look for fonts
only in certain directories, and that is that.  

> in which case what do I do to fix the font problem in Bl2?  

Pick a directory that Xvesa looks in, and link that to the
AbiWord font directory.

> Would the new BL3 Abiword package work in BL2?

I don't know.  It depends on how specific I have to be
in the installation script to get it to work on BL3.

> Do you want to post a preliminary version in case other 
> people are interested in testing it?

First will be the DOS version.  It is *much* more 
complicated doing the floppy version, so I'll wait
to hear if there are any problems with the DOS version
before updating the floppy version.

> Netscape had lots of problems in BL2 with Xvesa. It seemed 
> to be insisting on Xfree86.  Or at least it told you to run 
> some program in Xfree ver. 4 to fix some other problem.  

Yes, I got a similar message when I tried running Netscape
on BL1 with Xvesa.  It may be that Xvesa and Netscape are
incompatible.

> It was about 16MB for SW71 but probably older and smaller 
> for SW35.

Netscape 3.04 is around 5mb.

> Would installing dillo require also installing GTK 

Yes.  There will be a GTK package for that.

> What other programs are you considering that require GTK 

Sylpheed and a database (can't remember the name at the moment).

Cheers,
Steven

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