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From: winders@aux.support.apple.com (Scott Winders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: what's special about monaco 9
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Date: 21 Sep 90 18:10:11 GMT
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In article <1990Sep20.145245.10893@iex.uucp> cramer@iex.iex.com (Bill 
Cramer) writes:

> I got tired of not being able to tell the difference between a capital 
> letter "eye" and a lower case "el" when I use the Monaco font.  Simple 
> enough, I thought, I'll just add feet to the "eye" in the system font 
> resource. So anyways, I changed the 12 pt version and presto -- it worked as 
> I expected. But the changes to the 9 pt version don't seem to have taken 
> hold -- ResEdit says my eye has a foot (:-), but no applications recognize 
> my change.
> 
> Is 9pt Monaco treated special?  Can this special treatment be overcome?  

You are probably using a Macintosh that has Monaco 9 in ROM. You will need
to override the Monaco ROM resource with your modified resource.  This is
documented on page IV-20 of Inside Macintosh Volume IV. 

Scott Winders
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