Re: No bullets in lists

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 <ib@wupperonline.de> 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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Received on Thu May 6 09:00:45 2010