Why can't the Macintosh adopt a standard text output...

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From: [email protected] (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: Why can't the Macintosh adopt a standard text output...
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Date: 10 Nov 89 20:33:41 GMT
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[email protected] (The Moderators) writes:

> TeachText can actually have graphics included in the file. I have seen
this
> in documentation of several programs, although those were always very
simple
> pictures. I have no idea how it is done but it seems to be possible.
There
> is also a trick to make TeachText files as read-only documents.
>

To add pictures to a TeachText file you need to put a non-breaking space
(option-space) character into the text. Each time TeachText sees this
character it displays a PICT resource. The IDs for the PICT resource
begin at 1000 and go up from there. You have to insert enough blank lines
to leave space for the picture.

To make a TeachText file read-only, change its creator to 'ttro'.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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