I spent an hour or so this morning working on Linuxtype (mostly on the adding fonts page). I really need to figure out just how to add fonts to AbiWord and TeX. I downloaded OpenOffice.org 1.0 yesterday and I’ll play around with that later on as well. It has been quite a challenge to add fonts to TeX and AbiWord (and I’m still unsuccessful), which makes me even more determined to figure it out. There’s a lot of conflicting information out there (which is just what I found with the Wacom stuff, which is why I wrote my Wacom page). All I have to do is go through it all, figure out what works, and write it up. The hardest part is figuring out what works. While I was working on the adding fonts page, I discovered the README.fonts that comes with XFree86. I’d never seen it before, but it looks like a gem of a resource. That and the Font HOWTO are my two prime sources. The Font HOWTO hasn’t been updated in two years, though, so it’s getting out of date.

I realized that I needed a page to list all the projects I’m working on (since some of them won’t fit anywhere else in the site — for example, if I decide to play around with CSS and come up with a new layout, I need a place to put it). Thus Current Projects was born. It’ll be a miscellanous catch-all bin for the small stuff I work on that would be hidden away otherwise (like Vim syntax highlighting files, for example).

Just got back from work. I read up on XML Schema and XSLT and XPath and started writing an XSLT file to transform some genealogical data. XPath is extremely cool. I really, really like working with XML and company.