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In article <92Oct28.195707.35178@acs.ucalgary.ca> gerke@acs.ucalgary.ca (Ken Gerke) writes:
>One of our lecturers has developed some tutorial software in Microsoft's
>Quick Basic for Mac and it uses a couple of different fonts to 
>highlight certain parts of the information displayed.  Lately, on seemingly
>equivalent Macs, the font control goes away and all text looks the same.
>
>We have tried changing the fonts used in the desktop and varying the
>boot disk (system 6.05 and 6.07) used with the machines (Mac SE's and
>LC's) without success.  What else is there to try?
>

I can't say that I have any idea as to what would cause this problem
but I will say that you should make sure that the same fonts are installed
in each system.  If I remember correctly the fonts are referenced by 
a font number and if that number is not available the default font (usually
Geneva) will be used.  

A simple way to check on which fonts are being referenced by which numbers
would be to write a simple program in Quick Basic that prints out some
text and varying the font number.  For example:

For i = 0 to 15
	call textfont(i)
	print "This is font number",i
next i 

You could compare this output with the font numbers that are being
used in the tutorial program and with a little luck should be able
to figure out what's going on.

Please Note:  It's been a while since I did anything with QB for the 
mac and I don't have my manual with me so the above code is off the
top of my head and could be incorrect.

Hope this helps!

Bill