OOo Write 1.1 problems

David Dudek dudek at buffalo.edu
Thu Oct 30 08:34:45 EST 2003


You wouldn't happen to have an ISO of that CD available, would you?  ;-)

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David Thomas Dudek     http://www.buffalo.edu/~dudek/

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Cyber Source wrote:

> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:06:44 -0500
> From: Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: OOo Write 1.1 problems
>
> In Gnome all  the fonts in ~/.fonts are read, for any app. What I do is
> copy all my true type fonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ as root,
> change permissions to all *.ttf to 444, run "mkfontscale" and then
> "mkfontdir", then as a user in ~, I make a symbolic link to
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
> This works great and then all my true type fonts are useable as a user
> WITHOUT the need for redundant copies of fonts. I have a cd with approx
> 600 TT fonts and I copy all of those plus all the TT fonts from my usual
> windows mounts. My clients love this shit, lol
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:30, Robert Meyer wrote:
>
> > --- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
> > > I narrowed it down a little.  OOo Write 1.1 doesn't seem to have Times
> > > New Roman.  I went through a bunch of fonts and most don't even have a
> > > double quote.  Century Schoolbook L does, so I'm using that for now.
> > > TNR worked fine in OOo 1.0x, so what's wrong?
> >
> > Maybe you need to run 'drakfont' again and add the fonts to the new OOo?
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Bob
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
> > > Asheville Joe wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am typing some documents in OOo Write 1.1.  It seems just like the
> > > > previous version (except loads more than twice as fast!).  *But*,
> > > > whenever I type a dash " - ", it puts in a question mark instead.  If
> > > > I go back and correct it and put a dash in, then it leaves it.  Also,
> > > > it won't let me type a double quote not no how!  It puts in a question
> > > > mark and won't let me fix it like the dash.  Any ideas how to fix
> > > > this?  It will allow a single quote.
> > > >
> > > > Joe
> > > >
> > >
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