Big5 and abiword

[Curtis Brune <curt@acm.org>]

Howdy,
I'm having problems getting Big5 to work with abiword.  I have xcin up
and running.  I can enter pinyin in abiword, but the resulting character
is wrong, i.e. the font is wrong -- How do I select a a Big5 font from
within abiword?

I tried adding the two font.dir files below, but that did not help.  Any
clues?

> > I did get cxterm working entering pinyin with tones -- totally cool!  So
> > I can edit .tex directly, but a WYSIWYG editor would be perferable.
> 
> Try Abiword.  The latest version in Debian already supports CJK.  You do
> need to add two font config files though.
> 
> /usr/share/abisuite/fonts/zh-TW/fonts.dir:
> 
> 8
> Arphic-MingB5-B5-H, -Arphic-AR PL Mingti2L Big5-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0, 880, 120, 1000
> Arphic-MingB5-Bold-B5-H, -Arphic-AR PL Mingti2L Big5-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0, 880, 120, 1000
> Arphic-MingB5-Slant-B5-H, -Arphic-AR PL Mingti2L Big5-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0, 880, 120, 1000
> Arphic-MingB5-Slant-B5-H, -Arphic-AR PL Mingti2L Big5-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0, 880, 120, 1000
> Arphic-KaiB5-B5-H, -Arphic-AR PL KaitiM Big5-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0, 880, 120, 1000
> Arphic-KaiB5-Bold-B5-H, -Arphic-AR PL KaitiM Big5-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0, 880, 120, 1000
> Arphic-KaiB5-Slant-B5-H, -Arphic-AR PL KaitiM Big5-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0, 880, 120, 1000
> Arphic-KaiB5-Slant-B5-H, -Arphic-AR PL KaitiM Big5-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0, 880, 120, 1000
> 
> /usr/share/abisuite/fonts/zh-CN/fonts.dir:
> 
> 8
> Arphic-MingGB-GB-EUC-H, -arphic-ar pl sungtil gb-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0, 880, 120, 1000
> Arphic-MingGB-Bold-GB-H, -arphic-ar pl sungtil gb-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0, 880, 120, 1000
> Arphic-MingGB-Slant-GB-H, -arphic-ar pl sungtil gb-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0, 880, 120, 1000
> Arphic-MingGB-Slant-GB-H, -arphic-ar pl sungtil gb-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0, 880, 120, 1000
> Arphic-KaiGB-GB-EUC-H, -arphic-ar pl kaitim gb-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0, 880, 120, 1000
> Arphic-KaiGB-Bold-GB-H, -arphic-ar pl kaitim gb-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0, 880, 120, 1000
> Arphic-KaiGB-Slant-GB-H, -arphic-ar pl kaitim gb-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0, 880, 120, 1000
> Arphic-KaiGB-Slant-GB-H, -arphic-ar pl kaitim gb-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0, 880, 120, 1000
> 
> Note that these entries, especially the "PostScript font names" are not
> finalized yet, and you can't quite yet print Chinese from Abiword.
> Actually, you can, with the latest gs and defoma packages.

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