Re: Missing Bullets

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@seviorpc.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Oct 12 2003 - 23:46:42 EDT

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    On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 12:29, Jonathan wrote:
    > On Sunday 12 October 2003 09:18 pm, j wrote:
    > > Hi. I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 with AbiWord 2.0.0.
    > >
    > > Of the twelve bullet styles listed in the Lists dialog (Bullet List,
    > > Dashed List, Square List, Triangle List, etc) only Bullet List and
    > > Dashed List actually insert a character. For the other bullet styes,
    > > some sort of empty character is inserted. Has anyone experienced this
    > > and found a fix?
    >
    > J:
    >
    > I get that too here on FreeBSD 4.8 using Abiword 2.0.
    >

    This is due to a bug with XFT2 not displaying Dingbat fonts. Jim Packard
    fixed it about 4 months ago. RH > 9 should have the fix at which point
    I'll make sure AbiWord with these bullets works again. I don't when the
    XF2 fix will propagate to FreeBSD.

    Martin

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