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From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FONTs and ResEdit (Does it really work?)
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Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 11:22:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 10 11:22:47 1987
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Organization: Aiken Computation Lab Harvard, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: frustration font bitfiddle

In article <13578@clyde.ATT.COM> saf@moss.ATT.COM writes:
>
>I would like to use ResEdit to modify the Monaco font so that capital "I"
>looks different from lower case "l".  I copied the font out of the system
>file and into a new file, then tried ResEdit on it.  (BTW, the ResEdit came
>with MPW 1.0 so it is fairly current - less than a year old.)
>
>There are 3 windows in the font editor.  The two on the right work fine (I
>can enter sample text and scroll through the font).  The trouble comes in the
>window on the left (the fatbits window).  If I attempt to add a pixel, I get
>a few extra pixels off to the right of the character (this effect shows up
>both in the fatbits window and in the sample text and scroll windows).
>Also, the character shifts to the left in the fatbits window; the "character
>boundry markers" move with it.

The last time I tried to edit a font, I had to use a very old ResEdit
(the one that came on MacStuff 5/85).  I have no idea why the new ResEdits
don't seem to work correctly.  My symptom was that as soon as I edit a
character, it doesn't display at all any more.  I think I was trying to edit
an old-style font, though.

It may well be that the latest ResEdits only work on the latest fonts,
while Quickdraw/System can deal with any version.

-Eric



Eric K. Olson		olson@endor.harvard.edu		harvard!endor!olson