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riel@unixg.ubc.ca (William Riel) writes:

> In article <92Oct28.195707.35178@acs.ucalgary.ca> gerke@acs.ucalgary.ca (Ken 
> >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  
>  

Almost correct.  The code should be:
 
FOR i=0 TO 15
  TEXTFONT i
  PRINT "This is font number";i"."
NEXT i

Note that many fonts will not look correct unless you do a TEXTSIZE to an 
appropriate size for the given font.  I don't know what exact font/size 
routines you are looking for, but the above code is an excellent first 
step.  Then you can either use Font/DA Mover, or one of the other myriad 
applications like it, to find the sizes for the font(s) you like.  Good 
luck!
 

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James Elkinton (bbs.zio@tsoft.sf-bay.org)