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- From: kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673)
- Subject: Re: Hierarchal font menus?
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:31:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep05.002701.6890@CS.ORST.EDU>, andersm@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Mark Anderson) writes...
- >OK, here's my question. I have about 130 or so TrueType fonts installed on
- >my Mac SE. When I want to use on of those fonts that is at the bottom of the
- >listing is takes an annoying amount of time to get there. What I was wondering
- >is whether or not an INIT exists that will display the font menu in all
- >applications as a hierarchal menu with 26 choices (1 for each letter of the
- >alphabet?) Then under each letter would be all the fonts that started with
- >that particular letter. It seems to me that this would be possible because
- >I'm pretty sure that Adobe Type Reunion modifies the font menu to be hierarchal
- >but of a different form than I desire. If someone knows of an INIT that does
- >this, please e-mail me or if you are interested in writing one and my
- >description is somewhat vague, please let me know.
-
- One of the Now Utilities, whose name slips my mind, will let you rearrange your
- font menu, to put fonts you use frequently up at the top. Suitcase (or Master
- Juggler) will let you cluster your fonts into suitcases and turn them on or off
- easily, so that you don't have to sort through Cyrillic fonts, for example, for
- documents that are only English. Either or both of these should be helpful. I
- don't know of any extension that is exactly what you are asking for.
-
- Susan Kayser NCF::KAYSER or kayser%nssdca.span@star.stanford.edu
- Hughes/STX at NASA/GSFC/NSSDC
- Greenbelt, MD
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