From: Greg Ferguson <rtmd30@email.sps.mot.com>
Subject: Re: Can the font used by TeachText be changed?
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:44:27 GMT

> 
> kik@isr.harvard.edu (Ken Kreshtool) writes:
> 
> > Can TeachText's font default be changed? I would love to be able to
> > use Monaco, since 90 percent of what I use TeachText for is looking
> > at text that was originally created using a monospaced font, such as
> > these rn postings.  Can the font be changed within TeachText itself?
> > If not, can it be changed via some System level change?
> 
> TeachText uses the default application font, normally Geneva.  By
changing
> the default application font, you change the font TeachText uses.  If 
> you're not a programmer, there is a cdev that will do this, but I can't
> remember its name.  (Note: I know this works with the TeachText
distributed
> a few years ago.  It may not work with System 7's TeachText.)
> -- 
> Thomas Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu)
>   "Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt." 
> 					-- Clarence Darrow

We just went through all this about two weeks ago on the news.

I'll post the instructions once more.


Regards,

Greg

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Subject: About Text Editor for posting
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:37:00 -0400

Hi,
Michael Hecht in Digest-16 says :
Reply to    RE>What Editor is good?
>What text editor do you all use for composing articles?

I tried Edit II for a while, but the lack of automatic word wrap drove me
nuts.
I finally switched to Microsoft Word 5.0. I've set up my default Normal
style to
be Courier 10 pt. with a right margin at 6 inches. That gives me word
wrap at
about 75 columns, which is what it's set to in Nuntius. Works for me!

--Michael
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I answer to you basing on  the digest-16, so the format is different from
rn.
The question about Text Editor for posting is one of my painstaking
seaching. At last, I decide why not using TeachText, but it has no Monaco
9
which is the most, most favorite typeface and size I like. Obviously, I'm
not programmer ,so I post my request on comp.sys.mac.apps thinking that
maybe I will find one helper somewhere.
At last, one guy from Germany whose name is Frank Probul is the author of
"MiniSystem-Installer-1.0b1" (Sumex/util). He sent me a concise, accurate
instructions how to create TeachText of Monaco 9. Asking about 75-column
width, he says that it needs rewrite the s/w, but autowrapping can be done
by resizing the window (!). Anyway, from now on I use "my TeachText monaco
9" for posting from Nuntius. I did make my custom TeachText successfully
with Resedit.
One more thing is about "local selection" in doing follow-ups as an option
in Nuntius. I know Peter will never answer me about this, won't you ?
Here's my request and the answer from Frankie :
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|> How can you set your preferred typeface and size ? For example, I
would 
|> like to have Monaco size 9 in every window of TeachText. The reason is 
|> I want to use TeachText as text editor for editing posting in Nuntius; 
|> furthermore my favorite typeface and size is Monaco 9. 

Changing the font an size in TeachText:

Copy TeachText, rename it for the font you want like "TeachText Monaco 9"
Open this TeachText with ResEdit.
Open CODE-Resource 1.

CHANGE FONT:

Search for "0001 A887" at offset $4A88 (or near this address)
  0001: Font ID,
  A887: TextFont Trap ID
change the ID for the font you want: documented in Inside Mac 1, Page 219
   2: NewYork
   3: Geneva
   4: Monaco
 $14: Times
 $15: Helvetica
 $16: Courier

SIZE:

Search for "000C A88A" at offset $4A88 (or near this address)
  000C: size,
  A88A: TextSize Trap ID
change the size, documented in Inside Mac 1, Page 219
  0009:  9-Point
  000A: 10-Point
  000C: 12-Point
  000E: 14-Point
  0012: 18-Point

Save and exit. That's it.
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Hope this help.
 
       Khanh Kim, Nguyen
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