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