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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: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:26:03 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, David Moberg wrote:

On 8/18/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

Or Abiword once I set it up
for
BL2 (I need to add xset or something that David explained). I could also
do my typing with the text editor and import the file into Abiword to add
underlines, which would certainly be easier to learn if not to do.

I added xset (from xbin.tgz) to BL2 and all the dependencies are present.
(In BL3 I do not have dependency libX11.so.6 but Abiword works anyway).

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

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


Before this and on the other computer, typing abiword gives me
error messages:

"AbiWord could not load the following font or fontset from the X Window
System display server:
....Times New Roman - regular .......

Often this error is the result of invoking AbiWord directly instead of
through its wrapper shell script. The script dynamically adds the
AbiSuite font directory to your X Window System display server font path
before running the executable."

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.
If I try to use xset I get a different error message.


It is not needed in BL3, is it?

It is needed in BL3.

I tried adding to /etc/profile ':/usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts' (without the '
') which did not help. Where is the X display server font path specified?

On full-size XFree86, it is specified in XF86Config. Sometimes the X
font server also provides fonts for X. Otherwise, you can add additional
font paths with xset. On both Xvesa and full-size X, you can add
additional font paths on the Xserver command line.

BL3 has no XF86Config, I looked. xset is not working for me.
mkfontdir
xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/AbiSuite/fonts - gives error messages
xset rehash


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)?


Steven must have done something clever to get it to work in BL3.

He statically compiled it, for one thing. I think he also needed to modify
xinit or something like that so that Xvesa would work with it.

I am using the static version from BL3.
In .xinitrc:cd
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 - it did not help to add this to BL2.
I think it has something to do with using BL3 in X as a terminal.

Clicking OK got me back to the rxvt with:
Xlib: extension "XFree86-Misc" missing or display ":0.0".

Did this error come from xset?

Has David or Steven or anyone successfully used the static abiword in BL2?

I haven't tried to use it in BL2.

Since the script seems to not work for you, try running xset first (to set up
the font path):

xset +fp /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts/

I tried this, also fp+ (to add at end instead of beginning).

X Error: 86
Request Major code 51 0 (big O)
Error Serial #7
Current Serial #9



Now check that this worked (use xset q to display the new font path).

I get some more error messages including
Xlib: extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":0.0".


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 (which I do have in BL3 in another fonts directory under X11R6). Do I need to copy that over? It did not contain Times.
I checked every font directory I could find in both BLs.

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?

Does Abiword really need 2.4MB of fonts? Could I reduce this to just one monospaced and one proportional font and set up some alias to point to these? I don't print with Abiword, just want to be able to type files and email them to someone who will edit them and decorate to their own liking.

I can always use Abiword after chrooting to BL3.

David
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