Focuswriter 1.3.1 is out. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 255391 [details] app-text/focuswriter-1.3.1 ebuild Updated version number and added media-libs/libao as dependency (stated as one on the website). Works for me.
+*focuswriter-1.3.1 (25 Nov 2010) + + 25 Nov 2010; Tomas Touceda <chiiph@gentoo.org> +focuswriter-1.3.1.ebuild: + Version bump wrt bug 346739 + Thanks for reporting!