From koffice  Thu Mar 28 09:55:48 2002
From: Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:55:48 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Kword and fonts
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Hi,

Access to these characters is possible from the 'insert special character'
in the insert menu of kword.
You will find the em-dash and euro sign etc on page 32 or 33 (keep forgetti=
ng)
of fonts that supply the character.
If you have installed the microsoft-fonts (there is a debian package for it)
then you will find those characters in your Arial font at least.

If that fails; you should check if you are using a recent enough XFree (4.1=
=20
minimum), plus freeType and Xfc which should come with that version of XFre=
e.

Further check that those fonts you installed are available in the first pla=
ce
since you might have an installation that does not put the ttf/type1 fonts=
=20
rendering on by default.=20
Check
    http://www.google.com/search?q=3Dcache:WfgYGjlySTQC:trolls.troll.no/~la=
rs/fonts/qt-fonts-HOWTO.html+lars+troll+fonts&hl=3Den&start=3D1

Have fun

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 05:15:50PM +0800, Environment Centre of WA wrote:
> Dear People -
>=20
> Two weeks ago we installed Debian 2.2, KDE 2.2.2 and (of course) KOffice.
>=20
> Trying out Kword today, I discovered that I was unable to access a whole
> heap of extended characters from the center of the code-pages for any of
> the installed fonts.  Specifically, I needed Alt+0151 "m-dash".  Also, the
> "Insert Character" dialog box was extremely unstable.
>=20
> Is this a bug that you need to know about?  Or could it be something to do
> with the painful hacking I had to do to get our house fonts into the syst=
em?
>=20
> I should mention that we are migrating from Windows, and normally I would
> insert these characters using the Alt+<numeric keypad> -- which appears to
> not be an option under Linux.
>=20
> Gordon Edwards.

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Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.n=
et
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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