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Date:      Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:25:52 +0800
From:      Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk>
To:        freebsd-openoffice@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Chinese editing.
Message-ID:  <200403250924.07390.satimis@icare.com.hk>
In-Reply-To: <200403242206.42089.RoKlein@roklein.de>
References:  <200403241748.58493.satimis@icare.com.hk> <200403242206.42089.RoKlein@roklein.de>

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Hi Robert,

Thanks for your advice.

> On Mittwoch, 24. M=E4rz 2004 10:48, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > FreeBSD 5.2
> > I have OOo 1.1.0 running on my PC working nicely.
>
> I'm assuming you got the zh-openoffice-TW-1.1.0 version mentioned
> below running.  It should not make any difference, except in the
> Taiwanese version the menus and perhaps even the help is
> supposed to be in traditional chinese.  Entering Chinese
> characters is possible with the English and German version of
> OpenOffice, too (probably with all versions).

No.  I only have the English version of OOo 1.1.0 running.  In fact both=20
English and Chinese version of OOo 1.1.0 are the same except the latter=20
having Chinese fonts, Chinese input device and all menu displayed in Chines=
e. =20

It is true to all Office Suites running on Windows and Linux which I have=20
experienced previously.  The same has been confirmed by the Moderator of=20
'dev@zh.openoffice.org' while I installed OOo 1.1.0 on Gentoo last year.

Currently I am also subscribing to 'dev@zh.openoffice.org' and=20
'users@openoffice.org'.  Unfortunately upto now I could not get help from=20
there because the folks reading my posting are running either Linux or=20
Windows.  The last advice received by me from the moderator of=20
'dev@zh.openoffice.org' was;

Try to create symbolic link of true type fonts at=20
$OOoROOT\share\fonts\truetype.
OOo should be able to recognise it.

In response I posted a reply;

1)
# locate truetype
/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/share/fonts/truetype
=2E.....
/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/share/fonts/truetype/opens___.ttf

Is 'opens___.ttf' crashed? =A0 Where shall I create a symbolic link ?

2)
OOo is setup on =A0 /home/user/OpenOffice.org/program/=20

If there are more than one user, such as;
/home/user-A/OpenOffice.org/program/=20
/home/user-B/OpenOffice.org/program/=20
/home/user-C/OpenOffice.org/program/=20
etc.

shall I create a symbolic link to each user,

Up to now I have not received a further reply.  I am aware that the Moderat=
or=20
is not running FreeBSD.  I am also new to FreeBSD.

> > Now I want
> > to add Chinese editing function.  As per
> > 'zh-openoffice-TW-1.1.0_2' on following link;
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=3Dopenoffice&stype=3Dall
> > I need to install all packages indicated there.
>
> No. Those packages are required to get OpenOffice up and running.
> Some of those packages are only needed if you compile OpenOffice
> for yourself (for example bison, autoconf, gdk).

Oh, sorry I already started installing 'bison'.  The installation has been=
=20
running for more than 17 hrs because I am running a slow PC.  Anyway I will=
=20
stop after its finish leaving it there.  I am running FreeBSD on a 40G hard=
=20
drive, still having space there.

$ df -h
=46ilesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1a   248M    42M   186M    18%    /
devfs         1.0K   1.0K     0B   100%    /dev
/dev/ad4s1e   248M   3.4M   225M     1%    /tmp
/dev/ad4s1f    35G   3.2G    29G    10%    /usr
/dev/ad4s1d   248M    22M   206M    10%    /var


> > Kind advise shall I uninstall all of them and reinstall them
> > from their tarballs
>
> Well, no.

Noted with thanks.

> You still can't enter Chinese characters, though.  To be able to
> do this you'll have to run a chinese input method, XCin for
> example.  I used XCin for traditional Chinese and fcitx for
> simplified Chinese in the past.  (And, no, I'm not fluent in
> Chinese.  I'm just doing some lists of vocabulary for the
> language course....)

$ pkg_info | grep -i Xcin

Xcin is not installed on FreeBSD 5.2

$ cd /usr/ports
$ make search name=3DXcin
Port:   zh-xcin-2.5.3.p2_3
Path:   /usr/ports/chinese/xcin25
=2E...

I found it there.  I shall install it after 'bison' finished.

> I currently can't use Chinese input, however.  When updating from
> 5.1 to 5.2 something went wrong and the input systen doesn't
> work anymore.  I believer, however, this is a problem on my
> system only.

I learnt a bitter lesson previously on running Gentoo after 'emerge -u worl=
d'=20
upgrading the complete system.  It turned out the whole system could not wo=
rk=20
afterwards because it also reconfigured config files.  I forgot to put '-i'=
=20
tag on upgrade.  Finally I took several days and lot of effort to revive th=
e=20
Gentoo box. =20

But update should not be so worse.  I am not very experienced on FreeBSD

I found a FreeBSD user group in Beijing, I trust, on web but all postings a=
re=20
in simplified Chinese.  I can read and input simplified Chinese using=20
Traditional Chinese input method by selecting the simplied Chinese font. =20
But this PC, FreeBSD 5.2, can't input Chinese.  To post for assistance ther=
e=20
I have to jump to another PC.  That will be my last restort if I could not=
=20
find solution from this list and/or 'users@openoffice.org'

B.R.
Stephen





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