Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dataio.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!dataio!bjorn From: bjorn@dataio.UUCP (Bjorn Benson) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: How do fonts work? Message-ID: <774@dataio.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 11:05:58 EDT Article-I.D.: dataio.774 Posted: Thu Aug 15 11:05:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 02:20:10 EDT Organization: Data I/O Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 10 Disclaimer: I use Macs, I am a software engineer, I have not read Inside Mac I'm curious: How do fonts work? In a word processor like MacWrite does each character have four bytes of info: size, font, attributes, and ASCII? E.g. what is the internal form of a font specification? And for that matter, what about the attribute specs (%I, %B, %O, %S, ...)? Thanks for replying... Bjorn Benson