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From: englund@boulder.Colorado.EDU (ENGLUND TODD CHARLES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: editing fonts with resedit
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Date: 5 Sep 90 16:36:20 GMT
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Does anyone know how to edit FONT resources with resedit so that all those
unused characters represented by a box can be made usable.  I have had varying
degrees of success at this.  In all attempts I used resedit 1.3d1.

First attempt: This was on a mac IIx.  I found I could edit the bitmaps
for characters which already existed, but the attempt to replace a character
represented by a box in keycaps would cause all such characters to change.

Second and third attempt: These were both on SEs.  The first SE gives a
system error #2 every time I try to open a FONT resource.  On the second SE
resedit quits unexpectedly when I try to open a FONT resource.

My questions are:  Why does this work on a macII and not the SE?  Can I
give a different character assignment to each character which is unused
(i.e. shown as a box in keycaps).  I need to generate special characters for
writing in Romanian, and have found no such fonts available.  

Please send email to: englund@snoopy.Colorado.EDU
Thanks,

-Todd 

	"They say their punch cards got burned up, and they   
	 want to know if we can recover them."