Chinese editing.

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for your advice.

> On Mittwoch, 24. März 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 
English and Chinese version of OOo 1.1.0 are the same except the latter 
having Chinese fonts, Chinese input device and all menu displayed in Chinese.  

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

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

Try to create symbolic link of true type fonts at 
$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
......
/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/share/fonts/truetype/opens___.ttf

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

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

If there are more than one user, such as;
/home/user-A/OpenOffice.org/program/ 
/home/user-B/OpenOffice.org/program/ 
/home/user-C/OpenOffice.org/program/ 
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 Moderator 
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=openoffice&stype=all
> > 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 
running for more than 17 hrs because I am running a slow PC.  Anyway I will 
stop after its finish leaving it there.  I am running FreeBSD on a 40G hard 
drive, still having space there.

$ df -h
Filesystem    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=Xcin
Port:   zh-xcin-2.5.3.p2_3
Path:   /usr/ports/chinese/xcin25
....

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 world' 
upgrading the complete system.  It turned out the whole system could not work 
afterwards because it also reconfigured config files.  I forgot to put '-i' 
tag on upgrade.  Finally I took several days and lot of effort to revive the 
Gentoo box.  

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 are 
in simplified Chinese.  I can read and input simplified Chinese using 
Traditional Chinese input method by selecting the simplied Chinese font.  
But this PC, FreeBSD 5.2, can't input Chinese.  To post for assistance there 
I have to jump to another PC.  That will be my last restort if I could not 
find solution from this list and/or 'users at openoffice.org'

B.R.
Stephen