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From: harrow@exodus.DEC (Jeff Harrow, NCSE LKG1-3/F16 DTN=226-7445)
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Subject: Of Fonts and Files...
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Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 22:02:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 17 22:02:17 1986
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I've run  into  a  problem, especially before I got a hard disk, of putting 
certain fonts into  a  System  so  that  I  could  use them in a particular 
MacWrite (or Word...) document.    All  went well until I attempted to load 
that document while using another System.

It appears that the fonts are picked positionally within the font menu;  in 
that I mean that if Alice  was the first font in System A, and I used it in 
my document, when I loaded that document under a System which had GENEVA as 
font #1, it would come up in GENEVA.

First of all, is this "positionality" correct?

Well, what to do about it?  I  remembered  that the resources are generally 
searched in the order of Document File, then System File, so I used ResEdit 
to move a copy of a font which was NOT  in  the  current  System  into  the 
DOCUMENT file, expecting that it would then show up in the  FONT  menu when 
THAT DOCUMENT was the current document in MacWrite.

Alas, it didn't show up.

Any ideas/explanations?

Jeff