info-mac@uw-beaver (01/18/85)
From: GYACC%CUNYVM.BITNET@UCB-VAX
I would like to know if you or anybody knows how to change the
font that MacTerminal uses? It seems to me that the program
uses Monaco-9 but when I changed the font in the system file,
Macterminal still displays the orginal font. I think the
program has its own font inside. Would you know how to
change the font in the program or refer me to some one
who can help? Thank you very much.
Lawrenceinfo-mac@uw-beaver (01/24/85)
From: Christopher A Kent <cak@Purdue.ARPA> Indeed, MacTErminal has its fonts hidden in its resource fork. They are slightly modified Monaco-9 fonts, one is something approximating the double-width set found on the vt100. They have high font numbers (with the high-order bit on!) which makes the resource mover and font editor unhappy dealing with them. I have successfully modified these and reinstalled them in MacTerminal (an earlier message from someone at CMU told how to extract them, modify and install in the system file); I'll post a message later with details. The basic element is to renumber the fonts with the resource mover, inside macterminal, then copy them into the fonts file, edit them, reinstall into macterminal, and restore the original numbers. Trying to cut them with the original resource numbers would always crash the resource editor, and damage both the resource editor and MacTerminal binaries... chris ----------