Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 9:45:26 EST
From: Rusty Harold <eharold@pilot.njin.net>
Subject: update appsfaq
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.answers,news.answers
From: elharo@shock.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Reply-To: elharo@shock.njit.edu (Elliotte Harold)
Organization: Department of Mathematics, NJIT
Summary: This document answers a number of the most frequently asked
questions about Macintosh application software on Usenet. To avoid
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yourself with this document BEFORE posting.
Subject: Macintosh application software frequently asked questions (FAQ)
Keywords: FAQ, Macintosh, Mac, macintosh, mac, apps, applications
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Version: 2.2.1
Last-modified: January 16, 1994
Frequently Asked Questions about Macintosh Application Software
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comp.sys.mac.faq, part 4:
comp.sys.mac.apps
Copyright 1994 by Elliotte Harold
Archive-name: macintosh/apps-faq
Version: 2.2.1
Last-modified: January 16, 1994
What's new in version 2.2.1:
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0.0: The IP address of rtfm.mit.edu has changed again.
It is now [18.70.0.209]. Furthermore rtfm files are
now stored in uncompressed format.
My preferred E-mail address is now elharo@shock.njit.edu
though I will still be checking mail at erh0362@tesla.njit.edu.
1.3: What's the best word processor?
WordPerfect 3.0 may finally be the Word killer so many have been
looking for for so long. See below for details.
MacWrite Pro 1.5 has been released. I still can't figure out
why anyone should buy it.
1.4: TeX?
This section has been extensively revised, and now includes info
on the shareware Direct TeX.
1.9: Drawing application?
Canvas 3.5 has been released.
2.3: How can I change a Word document to TeX? and vice-versa?
MathType, the commercial version of Word's Equation Editor,
can convert equations written with the Equation Editor into
TeX formulas.
Table of Contents
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I. What's the Best...
1. Text editor
2. Word processor
3. Genealogy software
4. TeX/LaTeX
5. Integrated application
6. Spreadsheet
7. JPEG Viewer
8. Electronic publishing software
9. Drawing application
II. Microsoft Word
1. How can I assign styles to characters?
2. How can I automatically generate cross-references?
3. How can I change a Word document to TeX? and vice-versa?
4. How can I depersonalize Word?
5. Where can I get more information?
III. TeachText
1. How can I change the font in TeachText?
2. How do I place a picture in a TeachText file?
3. How do I make a TeachText document read-only?
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WHAT'S THE BEST... (1.0)
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TEXT EDITOR? (1.1)
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Available shareware and freeware text editors include McSink,
BBEdit Lite, Edit II (with grep style searching), Alpha (particularly
nice for working with TeX files), Stevie (for fans of vi), and
microEmacs. The feature sets of these editors overlap somewhat
but are not identical. Since all are available via anonymous FTP,
there's no reason not to try them all and find the one you like best.
I use Rich Siegel's BBEdit Lite for the FAQ because it can word
wrap to a specific number of characters and indent lines with spaces.
(You didn't think I did all this nice formatting by hand, did you?)
It's also a very nice programmer's editor. BBEdit has an extensive
interface for adding custom externals written in Think C so if you
need a feature that's not built-in you can add it. For me the only
thing that's missing is automatic word-wrap, but that's available
from the Text Editor Patches 1.2.5 by James W. Walker. Some others
may also miss a macro language that's easier to use than writing
code externals in C which brings us to my second choice.
Alpha ($25 shareware) is a text editor that includes a full
featured implementation of the tcl scripting language and extensive
search and replace capabilities. Emacs users will feel at home
with this powerful program. Unfortunately it's System 7 dependent.
Shareware authors take note: About 40% of all installed Macs are
still running System 6. If you actually intend to make some
money, then you shouldn't cut out half your market at a swipe.
Stevie is vi-workalike for the Mac, but since Stevie isn't
an interface to an ex-style editor as is vi, it's not as powerful
as its UNIX inspiration. microEmacs is likewise NOT a full featured
implementation of Emacs. If you want to do Emacs style Lisp
programming and keybinding (and I can't imagine why else anyone
would ever want to use Emacs on a Mac) you'll probably be happier
with Alpha.
WORD PROCESSOR? (1.2)
----------------------
I have seen the future, and it's name is WordPerfect.
WordPerfect has almost every feature of competing word processors
including not only basic and advanced word processing tools (style
sheets, spelling checker, thesaurus, grammar checker, outliner,
equation editor, on-line help, multiple import and export formats,
etc. etc. etc.), but many features more commonly associated with
desktop publishing software (text and picture boxes, tables,
multiple column layouts, indexing, EPS and uncompressed TIFF
importing, etc. etc. etc.) as well. Furthermore it's got two
abilities that have been glaringly absent from Microsoft Word for
years, automatic cross-referencing and a built-in macro language.
While most of these features are available in third party products
for other word processors, by the time you've bought the other word
processor and one or two add-ons you've already spent more than on
WordPerfect alone.
As I said WordPerfect 3.0 is the future of Macintosh word
processing. Unfortunately I'm not sure if it's the present. All
these capabilities don't come cheaply. WordPerfect needs about
1800K of RAM and seven megabytes of hard disk space for full
functionality, and still manages to make Word look like a speed
demon. Nonetheless if you do have lots of RAM, a 68040 CPU and
some need for the extra features WordPerfect offers, it's a very
good buy.
In previous versions of this FAQ list I strongly recommended
Microsoft Word 5.1. Word is still the market leader and still
fulfills ALMOST every conceivable word processing need. However
WordPerfect does everything Word does (except graphing which I
could never get to work anyway) and also includes automatic
cross-referencing, a built-in macro language, and WorldScript
support, all of which are missing from Word. Word is faster
than WordPerfect but not by that much. Word's outliner is more
integrated with document writing and formatting than WordPerfect's
is but can't auto-number headings. WordPerfect's can. Furthermore
WordPerfect Corporation is fully committed to Apple's vision for
system software with current and future technology like OpenDoc,
PowerTalk, WorldScript, and AppleScript. Microsoft is committed to
making the Mac look like Windows. Which company's vision do you
share? Even more convincingly competitive upgrades to WordPerfect
3.0 are much cheaper than Microsoft's version upgrades, and
Wordperfect's version upgrades are about a third the cost of
Microsoft's. And of course WordPerfect offers toll-free technical
support. If you're happy with your current version of Word, you
may not want or need to switch to WordPerfect right away, (though I
have) but I see no reason to ever again pay Microsoft for another
expensive upgrade to Word.
Users with limited disk space, 68000 CPUs, or less than four
megabytes of memory may want to consider WriteNow 4.0, a word
processor noted for its speed, small memory appetite, minimal
disk footprint, and small price. ($60 bundled with various other
indispensable productivity tools like SimAnt :-) Unlike the other
products discussed here, WriteNow really is designed first and last
to be a word processor, not a document formatter. It doesn't have
multiple picture import formats, tables, an equation editor, or
other features more associated with desktop publishing than with
writing. If all you want to do is write, WriteNow may be the choice
for you. Users behind the power curve and even those out in front
of it may also want to consider ClarisWorks whose word processing
functions are more than sufficient for basic writing. While more
expensive than WriteNow, ClarisWorks also provides many other
well-integrated features in a small and speedy package.
Among writers of technical documents that include many
numbered equations, tables, and figures, FrameMaker is particularly
popular. Unlike Word it has the cross-referencing capability to
match its tables, drawing package, and equation editor. However
FrameMaker really is more of a desktop publishing package than a
word processor, and it's priced like one. The educational discount
price for FrameMaker is close to the non-educational, street price
of Word 5.1 or WordPerfect; and competitive upgrades are not
available. When creating a Framemaker document you need to give
a lot more initial thought to the layout of the page than you
would with most word processors. It's much harder to just launch
FrameMaker and begin writing than it is in any of the other word
processors. FrameMaker is not well suited to general use.
Many netters swear by (and at) Nisus from Nisus Software. Nisus
3.4 has has several features not found in any other Macintosh word
processor including very powerful macros and multiple Undo's. It's
also missing many features included in other similarly priced
packages like tables, useable styles, and support for most System 7
features. The fully WorldScript savvy edition is copy-protected by
an ADB dongle; but if your writing is limited to Roman languages
and Japanese, the non-copy protected limited flag edition will
serve equally well. Nisus has developed an almost religously
loyal installed base. It will be interesting to see how this base
reacts now that WordPerfect has included almost all the features
that made Nisus unique without any annoying copy protection.
MacWrite Pro 1.5 is a solid product but has nothing special
to recommend it beyond the name of the company that makes it.
If MacWrite was produced by Friendly Neighborhood Software (tm)
instead of Claris, it would have been eliminated from the market
long ago.
GENEALOGY SOFTWARE? (1.3)
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Leister Productions' Reunion is the most powerful, flexible,
graphical, and easy-to-use Macintosh software for producing family
trees and doing genealogical research. At $115 street it's also
the most expensive. Reunion is available from all the usual
sources of payware software. If all you want to do is chart your
own family tree back a few generations, you may want to consider
the less powerful and less flexible, but considerably cheaper
Personal Ancestry File (PAF for short) from the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons for short). It's designed
primarily for easy downloading of data into the Mormons' central
database so it's not as easy to use as Reunion and lacks some basic
features. For instance there's no provision for children of
unmarried couples. PAF is, however, only $35. It must be ordered
directly from the Mormons at
Salt Lake Distribution Center
1999 West 1700 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
(800) 537-5950
The product number is #30992 (Macintosh) and an IBM version is also
available. MasterCard and Visa are accepted for a $2 fee. However
your card is charged for a cash advance rather than a purchase so
interest will begin accruing immediately and your credit card
company will probably tack on about a 2.5% cash advance fee.
Simple descendant and ancestor charts can be produced with the
shareware HyperCard stack Our Family Tree 1.2 by Timmy G. Bremer.
However this stack is limited compared to PAF and the much more
powerful Reunion. For instance, pedigree charts can only go back
five generations.
TEX? (1.4)
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Textures from Blue Sky Research is easily the superior
implementation of TeX for the Mac. It's the only TeX for the Mac
that typesets and displays text and equations continuously as the
TeX code describing them is typed, includes PostScript versions of
the Computer Modern fonts, or allows simple copying and pasting of
graphics and formatted pages between TeX and other Mac applications.
If you work with TeX on a daily basis, Textures at $195 student price
is worth a look. Blue Sky Research is famous on the net for technical
support that should be a model for the industry. For more information
send E-mail to sales@bluesky.com.
Andrew Trevorrow's OzTeX is not as sophisticated or as Maclike
as Textures, but OzTeX files are somewhat more easily exported
to TeX systems on other platforms than are Textures files. More
importantly OzTeX is only $30 shareware and available for anonymous
ftp from midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.73] in pub/OzTeX. OzTeX
is the most integrated and Maclike of the shareware TeX's. It's
also the only shareware TeX with anything approaching complete
documentation. It's slower than the other programs discussed here
but does allow background compilation and printing. If you only
need to print or preview an occasional TeX document, get OzTeX.
Tom Kiffe recently released CMacTeX 2.1, a more modular TeX
for the Mac. The different pieces of this full TeX package like
dvipreview, TeX, and METAFONT are all available separately. CMacTeX
is available in both freeware and commercial versions. The
freeware version is available for anonymous ftp at ftp.shsu.edu
[192.92.115.10] in /tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex. The freeware
package includes information on ordering the commercial version
which costs $25 and adds the "big" TeX and Metafont packages. Both
versions include METAFONT, dvips, and various other TeXie tools.
However both versions require a PostScript printer. Unlike the
other TeX programs CMacTeX cannot print to a QuickDraw printer.
CMacTeX's documentation is somewhat lacking.
Finally Wilfried Ricken maintains DirectTeX, shareware,
$100 for up to three copies, $20 for each additonal copy. It can
be retrieved from hadron.tp2.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.104.8] in
pub/directtex. DirectTeX sits on top of and requires the payware
MPW. This gives it exceptionally strong macro abilities but makes
it by far the least Maclike of the four packages. DirectTeX
supports bidirectional typesetting as is needed for Hebrew and
Arabic. It includes most TeX utilities such as BibTeX, METAFONT,
and various tools for working with .dvi files. DirectTeX is the
fastest shareware TeX and offers the most complete collection of
TeX capabilities and tools.
INTEGRATED APPLICATION? (1.5)
------------------------------
Most software is driven by the needs of power users. Features
are added to sell into the power-user segment of the market since
they're the hardest to please and spend the most dollars. Triple
Omega Paperware Corp. and its competitors need to design cocktail
napkins in 16,000,000 lifelike, mouthwatering colors so
Big Software Inc. has its programmers spend many hours adding
photorealistic color capability to Bloated Draw 7.2. Meanwhile
Father O'Brian finds he needs all the hard disk space on his Color
Classic and more money than he gets in the collection plate on
a good Sunday just to purchase and install Bloated Draw 7.2,
SuperDuperPublisher 3.8, and WhizzyWriter 9.7 so he can make a
brochure with a picture of a hamburger to advertise the upcoming
CYO dinner. Integrated applications provide the tools for Father
O'Brien to create his brochure at a price, both in money and system
resources, that won't require him to rob the poorbox.
Very few Mac users really push our $200 software packages to
the limit. Even people who do use Word 5.1 to the fullest may
not come close to utilizing the power of Excel or Canvas, and
vice-versa. An integrated package omits the 80% of features that
90% of users never touch. Thus we get the 20% of features that
we actually do use in several areas for less than the price of a
full featured application in any one of those areas. Integrated
applications also pack these features into a smaller, faster
package ideal for users with 68000 Macs or small hard disks. The
basic components of an integrated package include a word processor,
drawing application, spreadsheet, database, charting module, and
telecommunications. Some integrated apps also include painting
(ClarisWorks, WordPerfect Works, and GreatWorks), outlining
(ClarisWorks, GreatWorks), and even presentation
(ClarisWorks) modules.
ClarisWorks is undoubtedly the best integrated package for
the Mac (which of course means it's easily the best integrated
package anywhere, but you knew that already. :-) ClarisWorks 1.0
did what was previously thought to be impossible. It destroyed a
virtual Microsoft monopoly in a market, something no one had ever
before achieved though many had tried. The virtual dethroning of
market leader Microsoft Works by the upstart Claris ought to
serve as a lesson to any company that thinks market dominance can
substitute for solid, improving products. It also proved for the
first time that even as a wholly owned Apple subsidiary Claris was
capable of turning out a market leading product, something they'd
never done before. With the release of version 2.0 the gap between
ClarisWorks and everyone else became a chasm. Though other
integrated packages like Symantec's GreatWorks and WordPerfect
Works offer a few features not found in Claris Works and vice
versa, (Noone agrees on exactly how much should be included in an
integrated package.) none of the other packages are as well
integrated, well designed, and easy to use as ClarisWorks. I
strongly recommend ClarisWorks as the first software for new
Mac owners, and an essential tool for PowerBook users.
SPREADSHEET? (1.6)
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The best professional's spreadsheet is undoubtedly Microsoft
Excel. It's so far out in front of its competition, there really
isn't any point in giving an exhaustive list of why it's better.
However Lotus 1-2-3 is a full-featured spreadsheet and currently
sells on the street for about a third the price of Excel. ($99
for Lotus 1-2-3 AND DeltaGraph Pro from MacConnection vs. $295
for Excel alone) If you're not developing spreadsheet-based
applications, doing heavy statistical work, complicated What-If
analyses, or pushing the limits of what a spreadsheet can do,
Lotus is probably the better buy. If you are doing sophisticated
charting, then the Lotus-DeltaGraph bundle is by far the better
buy. While there are occasional reasons one might want to use
Wingz or Resolve, they all fall into the "If you have to ask..."
category. Since Claris is quietly dropping work on Resolve, I
particularly recommend that you do not buy Resolve unless you
absolutely must.
However if you're less than a real power user of
spreadsheets, you may want to take a look at two excellent
shareware packages, BiPlane and Mariner which retail for about 20%
of the street prices of their payware counterparts and offer the
20% of spreadsheet features 90% of spreadsheet users spend 100%
of their time using. Both are available from the usual sources
of shareware. You may also want to consider one of the
integrated packages such as ClarisWorks. For less than the
price of a full-blown spreadsheet, you get a medium-sized
spreadsheet with all the basic features except macros, and
a damned good word processor and graphics package to boot.
JPEG VIEWER? (1.7)
-------------------
Storm Technology's Picture Decompress shows JPEG's on all
Macs with 32-bit QuickDraw. Aaron Giles' JPEGView previews JPEG
files on System 7 Macs with QuickTime installed. PictPixie, a
QuickTime development tool from Apple, also allows Macs with 32-bit
QuickDraw and QuickTime to display JPEG's but requires enormous
amounts of memory. All are free; the first two are available
from the regular archive sites, the last from ftp.apple.com in
/dts/mac/quicktime. JPEGView and PictPixie not only display
JPEG's but can also convert them to Quicktime format. Kevin
Mitchell's GifConverter, $45 shareware, can read and dither JPEG's
on any Mac running System 6.0.5 or later regardless of the presence
of Quicktime and 32-bit Quickdraw.
One more free product worthy of mention is Jim Brunner's
JPEG Convert which translates JPEG format files to GIF's on any
Macintosh, albeit with some loss ok. Few have moved the other direction
unless forced.
Quark offers more control over the placement of objects on the
page and various color effects than does PageMaker. This makes
Quark particularly popular for advertising and other layouts
that don't look like traditional books and magazines. For instance
I can't imagine laying out Mondo 2000 or Spy in PageMaker. In
Quark it might actually be fun. This is not to say that such
things can't be done; the MacWarehouse catalog is done with
Pagemaker; but Quark is certainly easier to use for this sort of
free-form layout. Pagemaker fits a more traditional layout like
MacWeek's where everything fits neatly into non-overlapping
rectangular columns and boxes with occasional pull quotes.
Aldus has been playing catch-up with Quark for several years
now, and with the recent release of PageMaker 5.0 they may finally
have pulled even. The two products still aren't equal (Quark's
XTensions are superior to Aldus Additions; PageMaker's book
publishing features like automatic indexing are non-existent in
Quark.) but they are roughly comparable. PageMaker is a little
more expensive, but Aldus provides much better support. For
users just starting out I recommend PageMaker.
Many people choose PageMaker because its simpler interface
makes it easier to use for simple black and white newsletters,
books, and other printed matter that doesn't push the art of
electronic publishing to its limits. However if this is all
you want, you may be surprised at just how well today's word
processors fit your needs. With text and picture boxes,
styles, multi-column capabilities, sectioning, EPS import, and many
other features traditionally associated with desktop publishing,
word processors like Word 5.1, WordPerfect 3.0, and even ClarisWorks
can do a surprisingly professional job when producing relatively
simple documents. These features may not be obvious (especially
in Word 5.1) but they are present, and for considerably less money
than Pagemaker.
DRAWING APPLICATION? (1.9)
---------------------------
For sheer artistic capability Aldus Freehand and Adobe
Illustrator have been playing leapfrog with each other for years,
and neither company shows any signs of letting up soon. As
of this writing Illustrator is probably slightly out in front,
particularly with the recent release of Adobe Dimensions; but
most people feel more comfortable with whichever program they
learned first since the interfaces of the two packages are
somewhat different.
Both Illustrator and Freehand are designed for tasks that would
traditionally have been accomplished by freehand drawing. If your
drawing tends more towards the technical than the artistic, you'll
probably be happier with Canvas 3.5 which has a superior interface
for object alignment and drawing to scale. Illustrator and Freehand
can do pretty much anything Canvas can and vice-versa; but having the
right package does make particular jobs easier. If your pictures
will consist mainly of smooth curves, Illustrator or Freehand will
suit you better.
All of the above packages are geared toward serious artists and
professional designers and are priced accordingly. For occasional
drawing by non-professionals any of the integrated packages such
as ClarisWorks or even the drawing modules of WordPerfect or
Microsoft Word will likely serve well for a substantially smaller
investment of time, money, and disk space.
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MICROSOFT WORD (2.0)
=====================
HOW CAN I ASSIGN STYLES TO CHARACTERS? (2.1)
---------------------------------------------
Once you've used character based styles it's almost impossible
to imagine document formatting without them. After all, just because
you want equations to be formatted in 10 point I Times Italic or
references to menu choices in 12 point Chicago doesn't mean you want
the entire paragraph in that font; but that seems to be the only
choice Word offers. It's truly a shame that a program that makes
working with styles so easy via its ribbon bar and customizable
command key equivalents that can be attached to common styles doesn't
let the user attach styles to less than a paragraph of text at a time.
There is, however, a work-around. Unless you're one of the
fifteen people who actually use color text, you've got six unused
character formats called Blue, Cyan, Green, Magenta, Red, and Yellow
available in the Format Character dialog box and via user-assignable
Command-Keys. (There's also Black and White but using those two will
mess with the normal appearance of your document.) Pick a color for
each different character-based style you want to use and mark your
text with the appropriate color. Then, before saving the document,
do a global Find and Replace for each color; i.e. find the color and
replace with the style attributes like font and font size.
HOW CAN I AUTOMATICALLY GENERATE CROSS-REFERENCES? (2.2)
---------------------------------------------------------
Matthew Nodine's WordRef 1.4.1 (shareware, $25) uses some truly
inspired hacks to make cross-referencing and auto-numbering of
figures, tables, sections, equations or whatever else you might care
to count almost simple. (It can't be made genuinely simple until
Microsoft incorporates these features directly into Word.) WordRef
will also automatically generate BibTeX style bibliographies. The
writer defines variables for each reference or number series while
writing. These variables can be operated on by various arithmetic
and logical operators (so a little programming experience is helpful
though not absolutely necessary.) When you're ready to prepare a
draft, WordRef will resolve all references and citations into Word
PrintMerge variables. Then PrintMerge produces the final output.
The procedure is more complicated than it would need to be if
Microsoft incorporated these features into Word, but for the moment
WordRef 1.4.1 should serve most users' cross-referencing needs well.
HOW CAN I CHANGE A WORD DOCUMENT TO TEX? AND VICE-VERSA? (2.3)
----------------------------------------------------------------
Brian Jefferies of the University of New South Wales has
written the program RTF->TeX to convert files Word files saved in RTF
format into plain TeX files. RTF->TeX is less than robust. Among
other deficiencies it ignores paragraph and character formatting
and will not handle equations written with the Equation Editor
(though it will try to convert equations written in Word's built-in
formula setting language.) However RTF->TeX is a useful tool to
handle a lot of the grunt work of preprocessing documents before
finishing the conversion by hand. Erwin Wechtl has written a
similar though less polished tool called rtf2LaTeX for converting
RTF files to LaTeX. Design Science's MathType, the commercial
software from which Word's Equation Editor is derived can convert
Equation Editor equations into TeX (though it can't convert the
rest of the document). Call Design Science at (310) 433-0685 for
ordering info.
There are no Macintosh tools to go the other direction,
i.e. to change a TeX file into a Word file. There are several Unix
programs, noteably detex, that will strip out TeX formatting codes
as part of a conversion from TeX to plain ASCII which can of course
be read by most Mac word processors.
HOW CAN I DEPERSONALIZE WORD? (2.4)
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BEFORE installing any software you should lock all the master
disks, make a backup of all the master disks, and install from the
backups. Since some installers now check for specific bits on the
installer floppy, use DiskCopy to make the backup of the master
disks. DiskCopy also copies floppies more quickly on a one-floppy
system than the Finder. This is especially true for recent Microsoft
applications like Word and Excel that write personalization info on
the master disks. If you need to do multiple installs such as from
the single set of disks Microsoft sends with its site licenses, you
don't need to make a backup for every computer you'll be installing
on. Instead just copy the original, pre-personalization Installer
application onto your hard drive and replace the one on the floppy
with the clean copy from your hard drive after every install.
If the disks have already been personalized, get the freeware
Anonymity 1.2. Make a copy of Word on your hard drive and then
"Zap" it with Anonymity. This removes the personalization
information. The next time Word is launched it will prompt you for
the personalization information. If you're using Word 5.0 or 5.1
you'll then be asked to insert the "Install" disk. Don't! Instead
click Cancel. Word will now display a dialog telling you how nice
it's being for letting you use your software even though you're
obviously a nasty, evil pirate. Click OK. Then quit Word. Launch
Word again, cancel out of the dialog asking for the Install floppy
again, acknowledge the anti-piracy message again, and quit Word
again. Repeat this three more times. The sixth time you launch
Word it should have given up on ever getting you to give it the
master Install floppy and will stop asking for it.
WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION? (2.5)
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A FAQ list for the Word-for-Mac mailing list is archived at
alsvid.une.edu.au in pub/archives/word-mac/FAQ. This archive
stores both the full FAQ list and individual questions with
reasonably descriptive titles. Answers are available for many
more detailed and advanced questions than are covered here.
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TEACHTEXT (3.0)
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HOW CAN I CHANGE THE FONT IN TEACHTEXT? (3.1)
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Make a copy of TeachText 7.0 and open the COPY with ResEdit.
Open CODE resource 1. You'll probably be warned that the resource is
stored compressed and that opening it will irreversibly decompress
it. Click OK. Scroll down to address 4A88. You should see the hex
string "0001 A887". A887 is the call to TextFont(). The four hex
digits preceding it (0001) are the font ID. Change this number to
the ID (in hexadecimal) of the font you want. Monaco would be
0004. (It may be something else if Monaco has been renumbered
on your system.)
To change the size go to the next line (4A90) and look for
"000C A88A" A88A is the call to TextSize(). The four hex digits
preceding it are the size of the font to be used. Change "000C" to
the size (in hex) you want. For instance 0009 is nine-point, 0010
would be sixteen point.
Changing the font and size can adversely affect the way
TeachText displays embedded pictures which most commonly occur in
read-only TeachText documents (the ones with the little newspaper
icons) so you may want to finish your modifications by deleting FREF
resource 130 to prevent your modified TeachText from opening those
files. Save your changes and quit.
HOW DO I PLACE A PICTURE IN A TEACHTEXT FILE? (3.2)
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I recommend the shareware program Belgian Postcards by
AIGS and Karl Pottie. While the interface is not very well
thought out, it does make placing pictures in TeachText
documents easier than any other utility or technique.
HOW DO I MAKE A TEACH-TEXT DOCUMENT READ ONLY? (3.3)
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Use ResEdit or any other file typer utility to change
the file's type to 'ttro.' The above-mentioned Belgian
Postcards will also save (and edit) files in this format.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold Dept. of Mathematics
elharo@shock.njit.edu New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu Newark NJ 07103
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