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From: hseung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Hyunsuk Seung)
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Subject: Re: Shrinking menu's so superclock will show....help!
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Date: 8 Jun 91 00:13:22 GMT
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rcook@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Robert Cook) writes:
> Is there a way to force SuperClock to show (somewhere) when an app. uses
> the entire munu bar on a 9" screen.  Can some kind soul send me
> instructions on possibly shortening the menu names.  I've used resedit, but
> I'm no expert (quite novice actually).

You could change the default system font from Chicago to other
smaller fonts (I'm using Helvetica 10) by changing the resource
ID referenced by the Chicago font. Use ResEdit and go into FOND
field of your system file and modify the Chicago's resource ID
to your choice of font. You can get the listing of resource ID
numbers in the FONT field. You might want to lengthen the height
of your new system font by increasing its upper boundary (for 
bit-mapped fonts).
  Please be aware that this method might not work well with 
applications that use their own menu fonts. Maybe someone might 
have a better solution...

 
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