Hi everyone: I am sorry to send this again. However, I sent it a couple of weeks ago when there was not much activity on the list and got no replies. In addition, I am just about to start a large grant proposal which is going to be written in word. So, I would like to get abi-word to work. Thanks!
>I just found out about abiword and I think it is a great idea. I >usually use emacs and TeX, but have found that I need to work on doc >files more and more. What a pain. However abiword looks like a great >way to do this. > >However, I have two problems: > >1) It crashes a lot. Once every 5 minutes. I know that this does not > tell you a lot, but it makes the code alost unusable. I am running > Red Hat 7.1, if that helps. The problems seem to be reproducible. > For example, if I start a number list and change the style to > `upper case list', the program crashes. The error message is: > > /usr/bin/abiword: line 67: 1426 Aborted > $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/AbiWord_d "$@" > >2) It will not start at all in my high resolution mode. I use my > laptop in two resolution modes: 1400x1050 and 1024x768. Abiword > works fine in the low resolution mode, but in high resolution I > get a window that opens and says: > > Abiword could not lead that following font or fontset from the X > Window System display server: > [-*-Times New Roman-regular-r-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*] > >Thanks for any help you can give me! -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hal Levison [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Address until 6/03: Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur B.P. 4229 06304 Nice Cedex 4 Tel: (33) 4 9200 3191 France Fax: (33) 4 9200 3033 - Permanent address: Space Studies Department Southwest Research Institute (WWW) http://www.boulder.swri.edu 1050 Walnut St, Suite 400 Tel: (303) 546-0290 Boulder, CO 80302 Fax: (303) 546-9687 USA --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
