Re: No bullets in lists

John M Lang <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.abiword.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I experienced this problem on Ubuntu 9.10 using packages from the
AbiWord-Stable PPA.  From what Martin said, it sounds like these
packages are missing a dependency.  Any idea what the font package
might be named?

I ended up reverting back to 2.6 to get the functionality I needed.

~John

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Martin Sevior <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Ingo,
>
> What distribution do you use? Have you checked whether Standard
> Symbols Type 1 font is installed for your distribution?
>
> My guess is that is it missing and the problems you describe will be
> fixed once it is installed.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Ingo Brueckl <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using AbiWord with Linux and in Linux several Windows True Type Fonts.
> > All Fonts work well, except Symbol.
> >
> > The bullet character (coming from Symbol font) in lists isn't a bullet (0xb7,
> > U+2022 or U+2219), but the 'infinity' character which looks very strange.
> >
> > While all fonts look OK in the "Insert Symbol" font table, only a few
> > characters show up for the Symbol font. Most entries are boxes with a hex
> > code in them.
> >
> > Why is this? What is different with Symbol (comparing the the other fonts)?
> >
> > Can anyone help or explain what to do to get proper bullets?
> >
> > Another problem with lists: bullet and numbering characters all have a grey
> > background and I cannot change the font for bullets in the "Format -> Bullets
> > and Numbering" dialog. Is this as it is supposed to be?
> >
> > Ingo
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