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From: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: FONTs in stack: what's bad?
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.180031.677@sics.se>
Date: 28 Nov 90 18:00:31 GMT
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There has been some postings concerning FONT-resources in stacks:

 In <18615@unix.SRI.COM> mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) writes:
 >Apple recommends that you don't include fonts in any documents. And since
 >a stack is just a document Apple recommends not putting them into a stack 
 >either. 

 In <37407@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
 >Does anyone have any thoughts on the _appropriateness_ of including
 >fonts with a stack?  Not in the stack, that's taboo, apparently.


 But I can't understand this. I thought it was an accepted way to assure that
the user has the resources he needs. In the Apple publication "Technical
Introduction to the Macintosh Family" (ISBN 0-201-17765-X) on page 74 you
could read:

   "The resource manager usually searches the files in the reverse
    order that they were opened..."

   [i.e. beginning with the document file]

   "Understanding of this search order makes it easy to share resources
    among applications and also to override a system resource with
    a custom resource."


And in another Apple publication, "HyperCard Stack Design Guidelines" (ISBN
0-201-51784-1) on page 87:

   "If you need to use a nonstandard font for text fields, you should
    either install it into your stack itself, or include it as a separate
    font resource and instruct the users to install it into their System
    with the Font/DA Mover utility."


  If HC 2.0 can't deal with resources in the stack I'll think of it as a
rather nasty bug. Besides FONT and FOND resources I also want to put KCHRs
into my stacks, I hope this will be supported in future versions of HC.