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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Abiword in Slovene
  • Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 03:49:42 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 10 May 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

Now that I have disabled Abiword on one computer (by upgrading BL2 to
SW9.1 library, which I will probably undo, and the computer won't boot any
more anyway) someone offered me a large translation editing job in which I
need to read Slovene (but not type it) and Abiword is of course displaying
the standard upper ASCII characters.

How do I add a font to Abiword (and/or X) that would be compatible with
whatever Windows is using so I could read it with diacritics instead of
math symbols? (I also need to turn off the spellchecker). CP1252, I
think. (I rarely use Windows).

If all else fails I will have to (shudder) hook up the Win98 computer.

I found instructions online and they are very complicated and I don't plan to bother. I can read math symbols instead of diacritics if I have to edit the actual document. I don't know what will happen to the Windows characters when they pass through Abiword and come out as rtf anyway. It might be interesting to compare before and after.

antiword -m 8859-2 -w 100 slovene.doc > slovene.txt
matrox-on (a script to display at 100 columns or 800x600)
setfont to set the font to 8859-2 (another script)
pico slovene.txt

I combined these all into a script and it works in 1/2 second. Abiword is much slower. I am hoping they will let me type up a separate page of text corrections instead of editing their doc file and returning it as rtf.

The Abiword that comes with Slackware 10.2 has two pages of dependencies and still has some problem with font conversion (UTF-8 to 8859-1) that I think BL Abiword had a while ago. I need a fonts.conf file somewhere. I don't see one in /usr/local/AbiSuite. I am extremely impressed that Steven compiled a 6MB version (plus fonts and dictionary). The dependency packages are larger than that.

Sindi




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