Hi Francis,
> Does anybody have a UNIX build with Hebrew fonts? > Is there a HOWTO anywhere on setting-up AbiWord for such use? If you mean, 'do we have a build with Hebrew interface', then no, nobody has translated the strings yet. If you mean 'can we use AW to type Hebrew' then yes, providing you have ISO-8859-8 or utf-8 locale set up, and have the bidi build of AW (must specify ABI_OPT_BIDI_ENABLED=1 on the make command line). I have put together a font pack of basic Hebrew pfa fonts, which you can download from http://www.frydrych.uklinux./abi/fonts- iso8859-8.tgz. General information on setting up non-Latin1 locales is in UnixLocales.txt and UnixFonts.txt found at the top of the abi tree. If you have any problems setting this up then let me know. If your X-server supports ttf fonts, then you can also use any ttf fonts that have the Hebrew Unicode page in them; I personally use the MS fonts Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New, and run utf-8 locale. I should add that the bidi build is still fairly experimental ... Tomas
