X fonts and abiword

[Joel Hammer]

There seems to be a well know problem with fonts and abiword. Less well know
appears to be the fix.

I am using Abiword 1.02, the latest one for which there is a debian release,
I think.

I get the usual font error on startup (Can't add font directory to X
server path), but that goes away and all seems fine.  However, when I
try certain fonts, like luxi anything, abiword  complains it can't find
the font, then crashes. This seems to be because the common fonts like
Times and Courier can be supplied from  the  X server without need of
special abiword fonts.

I have added the abisuite font path (/usr/share/Abisuite/fonts) to my
XF86Config-4 file, but this doesn't appear to do any good.  With xset -q,
this is all I have with fonts:

Font Path:
  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,tcp/127.0.0.1:7102

Note: The abisuite font path doesn't appear.

If I try xset -fp /usr/share/Abisuite/fonts, I get this error message:
xset:  warning, no entries deleted from font path.

So, I guess this is the root of the problem, xset cannot add the abisuite
font directory  I would appreciate any suggestions for fixing this.

Thanks,

Joel