abulloch@violet.berkeley.edu (07/31/86)
[Using: Mac+, Mac+ keyboard, System 3.2, Finder 5.3, 800k external.] I would much appreciate help and advice on the following problem: - When I try to edit various fonts with ResEd 1.0D12 (opening FONT and on throughinto the Font-editor window), the black triangles at the bottom which regulate the character width either a) do not appear at all, or b) do appear, but way over to the left of the editing-window well outside the actual character box. When this happens the font nonetheless functions OK, in that its characters show up in the display-text box etc., and the pixels making up the character show in the 'fat-bits' box - that is until/unless I attempt to move the black triangles (if they appear at all), or try to edit the pixels, at which point the character- width does begin to get screwed up. Now, this has not happened on any Apple fonts, old or new; it has happened on many non-Apple fonts, produced by other people (e.g. Boston II) as well as by myself. At first I thought that the problem must be something to do with the FOND resources, which are used by the new ROMs but not by the old, and which the new System (or ROMs) seems to create for the old, pre-FOND, fonts; but closer inspection showed that the FOND resources for all the non-Apple fonts appear to be exactly the same as those for the Apple fonts [except those for the Laser fonts, which are full of specifications on width, ascent etc. etc. - why? incidentally.] - furthermore, fonts kept stored in separate files which had not been through the new System and therefore did not have any FOND resource attached to them nonetheless gave poor old ResEd the same problem. At this point I turned back to an earlier version of ResEd. Still using System 3.2 and Finder 5.3, I find that ResEd 0.8 has no problems at all: triangles appear in their proper places, and everything can be edited quite happily.... 0.8 is a version in which the measurements of the character are not given in the bottom right of the editing window (that sequence of letters and figures of the kind 'ADLOW 12-2-etc.'). What is it, then, that ResEd 1.0D12 is looking for in these fonts and not finding? _Is_ it something to do with the FOND resource? Why does it happen only with non-Apple fonts? (Which suggests that there is some crucial deficiency or lapse of some kind in the internal mechanics.) The fonts of my own making with which this has happened were created with the ResEditor.... (v.0.8 and earlier). Is there some other factor which I have overlooked? Is there a simple process that one can put the 'older' fonts through to make them fully consistent with the new ROMs etc? (After all, if ResEd has problems handling a font, presumably the System couldtoo...) Do _you_ have any fonts which give ResEd 1.0 these problems? I would much appreciate some advice and help on this. Anthony Bulloch Classics Dept. Dwinelle Hall UC Berkeley Ca. 94720 Tel.: (415)-642-4218 GEnie: a.bulloch abulloch @violet.berkeley.edu