OOo Write 1.1 problems

[Asheville Joe]

That sounds really cool, but I haven't worked with gnome yet.  I have 
kde and there is no ~/.fonts directory at present.

Joe

Cyber Source wrote:

> 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
>>> >
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection
>>> of authority."- Julian Huxley
>>> 
>>> 
>>
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