[comp.sys.mac.misc] Resource path and fonts

rw23+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Ward) (04/20/91)

According to Inside Mac, the resource manager searches for resources
by first looking in the current document, then the current
application, and then finally the system. Is this true for font
resources?

My problem is that I want to make some changes to a font (Symbol 18)
in a single MS Word 4.0 document.  Here's what I did. With ResEdit, I
created a resource fork for the document and copied the Symbol 18 font
from the system resources into the new document resource fork. I then
modified some of the characters of Symbol 18 (the one stored in the
document's resource fork), and saved my changes. This procedure has no
effect, that is, when I run MS Word, the document looks exactly the
same.  Is it possible to do what I want to do, or have I made a
mistake?

Thanks,
Rob
ward@psy.cmu.edu
rw23@andrew.cmu.edu