Re: "Insert Equation" no longer availalbe after updating abiword.

Hi Martin,

I know I didn't give all the details but I'd already tried that and much
more. I've now got it working so I'll give a full account of what I did
in case it helps anyone else.

The background is that I'm a long time abiword user, but i only use it
occasionally. Last night was about 90% finished preparing a document in
Abiword and was just having some minor formatting problems with a few
equations so I decided to try updating to the latest version. That's
when things went wrong, after that I lost the "insert equation" option
and nothing I could do could get it back. I was definitely choosing all
the correct options during install. To verify this I even installed
abiword on another (abiword virgin) computer with same installers and
identical options and it worked without any issues.

Here's some of the things I tried.

- Uninstalled abiword and removed all left over files from "program files"
- Unistalled the MIT Mathml font's
- Uninstalled the C++ redistributable (as I noticed this also installed
with abiword) and all older versions of the same.
- Searched the registry for "abiword" and removed all instances.
- Reinstalled all components but still no luck with equations. :(

Ok here's what finally got it going. I tried several thing so
unfortunately I don't know which of these did the trick so I post them all.

- Re-did all the uninstall and clean up steps as per the above.
- Found one extra abiword folder that I'd previously missed in
"c:\documents and settings\user" so I deleted that too (I think it
stores configuration data).
- Created a new (admin) user account (in Windows XP) and installed the
MIT mathml fonts and Abiword from the new account.
- Hooray it worked!
- Went back into my regular user account and ran abiword.exe directly
from it's program_files folder and hooray it worked ok to.

Ok so I don't know for sure what the important step was, as I was
getting desperate and just trying everything I could think of. I've
since uninstalled abiword etc from the new user account and re-installed
it from my regular account (to let it make the shortcuts etc) and it's
still working. :)

Martin Sevior wrote:

>Hi Stewart,
>
>When installing version 2.8.6 make sure you select math support. It's
>an install time option.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Martin
>
>On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Stewart <stewart.email@aanet.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm running abiword under Windows XP. Previously I was using ver 2.46 and
>>equations were working correctly.
>>I updated to the current ver 2.86 and I no longer have the "insert
>>equation" option available.
>>I've tried re-installing the older version but still no change. Somehow I've
>>completely lost the option to insert equations.
>>The Maths fonts are installed BTW.
>>
>>If anyone has any clues please let me know.
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Received on Fri Nov 19 09:23:32 2010