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Re: Way to hack PICTs into TeachText docs?

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From: Ephraim Vishniac
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:40
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In article <1992Nov18.221148.27803@Princeton.EDU> jdunning@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning) writes:
>I think I once saw a utility that could insert PICT graphics into
>normal TeachText documents, much like you can do with other word
>processors.  I thought it was called DocMaker, but that creates
>stand-alone documents.

You were close. You're thinking of TeachTextMaker. Learn to use WAIS,
and you can answer these questions yourself. Here's the top-scoring
article from a search of info-mac.src with the keywords "archived
teachtext."

Info-Mac Digest V8 #185:  [*] TeachTextMaker v 1.0
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 90 15:23:41 +0200
From: GHGAXBA%BLEKUL11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: [*] TeachTextMaker v 1.0

Creating TeachText readme files containing Pictures in the past
was something most people didn't like to do. Moreover many people
didn't even  know how to do it. It was a complex task, juggling
resources,  using ResEdit. So there weren't too many TeachText
files with Pictures about. And yet, TeachText is an ideal
instrument for readme documents and online-manuals of all kinds:
it launches quickly, uses little memory and above all: everybody's
got it.

So I decided to write an application to create TeachText files as
easily as it is to create a MacWrite document, using
cut&paste-like commands. The result was: TeachText Maker (TTM).

[Archived as /info-mac/app/teach-text-maker.hqx; 56K]

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