chuq@sun.UUCP (05/22/86)
This is the first of a 17 part posting of the shareware Boston II font.
(before you freak, each part is about 20K, I made each part small to
minimize possible damage enroute).
This is the README, which explains everything. All other pieces will
be in net.sources.mac only.
chuq
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Instructions for installing and using the Boston II font:
There are four parts to this Boston II distribution:
o FULMAN.BOS -- The manual for the Boston II font. This manual must
be formatted by Macwrite 4.5 on a 512K or larger machines. It
will NOT work on a 128K machine, and it is too complicated for
Word to successfully convert. There is a 128K version of this
document (in four pieces) available on CompuServe, but I didn't
download it due to cost.
o MACWRT.BOS -- The Boston II font set up for MacWrite. Use these fonts
to format the manual regardless of your normal Word processor.
o WORD.BOS -- The Boston II font set up for Microsoft Word.
o NY.BOS -- The Boston II font set up for Microsoft Word, but numbered
to act as a replacement for the New York Font, allowing it to
be the startup Word font.
All fonts are in Font/DA mover format.
Instructions:
To print the manual, download MACWRT.BOS and install it in your system file.
Include the two supplied Chicago fonts as well. Load the document FULMAN.BOS
into Write and print. Note: this is a VERY complicated document, and Write
takes a LONG time to format and print. If it looks like Write has gone away,
just let it be. It took my machine (running a Paradise HD with print
buffer) about half an hour to format, and it printed for almost 15 minutes
beyond that. If you're on floppy or don't have a print buffer, expect it
to take a LOT longer. Do NOT try to format this document on a 128K Mac
or with Microsoft Word.
If you normally use MacWrite, leave the fonts from MACWRT.BOS installed
and use them. If you normally use Word, you have two choices.
First, remove the MACWRT fonts (They are under the names Boston II,
MicroBoston and MiniBoston). If you want to add Boston to your system
file in addition to everything else, use WORD.BOS. If you are short on
space (any floppy based system, for instance) you'll probably want to pull
some other fonts to make room, so get rid of New York and replace it with
the fonts from NY.BOS.
Why three versions? The manual makes this clear, but a quick summary: All
three font sets are equivalent and contain the same fonts, but MacWrite
can't handle some of the font sizes available in Boston II, so they
were made available as MicroBoston and MiniBoston. WORD.BOS has these
fonts named normally so Word user don't get stuck with the wierd naming.
NY.BOS is the same aa WORD.BOS but with the Font number changed to the
same as New York.
Notes:
This font is copyrighted and is shareware ($10), cheap at twice the price.
I have been using Boston, the original version of this font, for a number
of months now as my main font, but Boston II makes the original Boston
look like San Francisco font. There are also new sizes available (such as
a VERY readable 7 point) a LOT of special characters, and a special 1 point
leading font. Read the manual, it explains all about using this stuff and
is a work of art besides. You have to look VERY closely to see that this
isn't laserwriter output, and it is significantly cleaner than a typewriter.
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