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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

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