Re: How to restrcit the font list ?

On (14:12 11/05/08), David A Redclift <david.redclift@tiscali.co.uk> put forth the proposition:
>
> You might like to look at the way Serif PagePlus manages fonts.
> Sure they are all there in the list alphabetically, but ones already in
> the document are at the top of the list with a separator.
> So if you end up re-using a document (as I do most of the time) all your
> favourites are at the top of a full list. Thought for a future feature?

I would agree with this. It would be nice to have say the last five fonts
used at the top with a separater. I think OpenOffice does this as well as
MS Word.

>
>
> On Sun, 11 May 2008 11:55:10 +0100, romain scheck <scheck.r@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >I decided to separate this topic from my previous thread "Zoom, Shortcut
> >keys, Icons, Font list" for more clarity and easyness to search
> >
> >The font list menu is huge. How to restrict it ?
> >Walter Blum wrote:
> >>
> >> Why do you want to restrict it? I love a big list, as
> >> long it's alphabetical, and as long as you can specify
> >> a font (Like Times New Roman) as your default. I'm not
> >> crazy about Ariel, or some of the other fonts that
> >> people dote on.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> It's just faster to choose another font from the list if
> >> you don't have to scroll in and it doesn't clutter the
> >> whole height of the screen that way.
> >>
> >>
> >>Hey, Romain. Windows has a folder that contains all the
> >>fonts used by Word and AbiWord. Go to My Computer, open the
> >>Local Disk folder, navigate to Windows, then Fonts and
> >>voila! All those damned fonts you didn't want to see. You
> >>might want to open a folder of your own containing fonts you
> >>want to get rid of. That way they're handy in case you ever
> >>want to use them some day. There are a gazillion fonts that
> >>are absolutely worthless. Plus, you might someday want to
> >>add a font, and that's how to do it.
> >
> >
> >Thanks but I am using GNU/Linux. I can edit abiword.profile also but
> >don't know how.
> >This is the relevant part:
> >
> ><Fonts include="0">
> > <!--
> > Here you can put a list of fonts to limit the fonts that appear
> > in the font UI:
> >
> > <face name="some face"/>
> >
> > The include attribute of 'Fonts' controls the significance of
> > the list:
> > include="1" - limit fonts to those listed
> > include="0" - exclude the listed fonts from the system font list
> > -->
> > </Fonts>
> >
> >
> >So, I edited the file AbiWord.Profile like this
> >
> ><Fonts include="1"> <DejaVu Sans="DejaVu Sans"/>
> > </Fonts>
> >
> >Saved it, restarted AbiWord but it has no effect and AbiWord.Profile is
> >overwritten. !!!
> >Idea, anyone ?
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