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From: cbselle@intvax.UUCP (Colin Selleck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Redirecting TeXture's search for fonts
Keywords: TeX
Message-ID: <1783@intvax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 89 19:58:34 GMT
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Org. 1411, Albq, NM
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We have a number of Mac's on an ethernet network and have recently
installed Tops on them. We also have a Sun on the network with Tops.
This allows us to copy files between Macs and between Macs and the Sun.
You can also access files on other Macs or the Sun.

Anyway, most of us run TeXtures on the Macs and each have about 9 
meg of fonts for TeX stored on each hard disk. It would be nice
to have only one copy of the font files on the Sun and let each
Mac access the fonts from there. Then we could all delete the
fonts from the Mac disk.

The problem is that TexTures only looks for fonts in a folder called
Tex Fonts in the same folder as the application.  To use the fonts on
the Sun I have to open up each individual font file on the Sun with an
open file dialog box.  Needless to say, this is time consuming.  I have
talked to Blue Sky Research (from whence TeXtures came) and there are
no plans to change TeXtures to fix this problem.  I could use
MacroMaker to create a macro to open up the fonts but somehow this
doesn't seem very elegant.  We have also used ResEdit to try and locate
the string Tex Fonts but there are just too many code resources.

So, the million dollar question is if there is a cdev or init
or some technique to tell TeXtures to find its fonts somewhere else?
This would probably be useful for other applications as well.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Colin Selleck
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