info-mac@uw-beaver (12/13/84)
From: Christopher A Kent <cak@Purdue.ARPA> Or, frustration-squared! I've just spent an evening learning about the Font Editor, Resource Mover and friends, thanks to the wonderful documentation on Ken Sproull's font disks. My goal: to cross MacTerminal's zero and serif it's lower-case ell. I feel like I've gotten really close, but no cigar. First, I figured out how to get the Monaco-9 font into the Font Editor. I did the appropriate bit twiddling, then did "Save Font", which created the Fonts file. This, of course, coulnd't be used by the Font Mover, which insists on touching only fonts that it creates... so I started over, using Font Mover to make a copy of Monaco-9 in a Fonts file that the Font Mover would touch, then editing it. Everyone seemed happy, the sample shown by the Font Mover looked good, so I was ready to move on. I launched Resource Mover, opened the Fonts file, copied the Monaco-9 font out (id 521, I think). Hmm ... maybe I needed to copy both Monaco-0 and Monaco-9? Who can say. Closed Fonts, opened System, pasted. Exited. Launched MacTerminal, and damned if there wasn't any change! Went back to Font Mover, looked at samples from both versions of Monaco-9, and they're the same -- both have serifed lower-case ells. So, I use Resource Mover to examine MacTerminal itself. Sure enough, it has some private fonts, but none that are meaningful -- a very large id, no name, size -119, no sample text works. I don't know what these are for, and I'm getting tired. As I think about it, it's pretty clear that MacTerminal *doesn't* use Monaco-9 (then why is it marked required for system use?) because in the MacTerminal font, the lc ell extends one pixel upward beyond the uc eye, and this isn't true in Monaco-9. So, who can help me out? Has anyone done this successfully? It's been an entertaining and enlightening evening, but knowledge alone is not enough... Cheers, chris ----------