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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Kword and fonts
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-03-28 9:55:48
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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 forgetting)
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 
minimum), plus freeType and Xfc which should come with that version of XFree.

Further check that those fonts you installed are available in the first place
since you might have an installation that does not put the ttf/type1 fonts 
rendering on by default. 
Check
    http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:WfgYGjlySTQC:trolls.troll.no/~lars/fonts/qt-fonts-HOWTO.html+lars+troll+fonts&hl=en&start=1


Have fun

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 05:15:50PM +0800, Environment Centre of WA wrote:
> Dear People -
> 
> Two weeks ago we installed Debian 2.2, KDE 2.2.2 and (of course) KOffice.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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 system?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Gordon Edwards.

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new


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