Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:54:58 -0500

From: Grant Barrett gbarrett[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]JERRYNET.COM

Subject: Character Display on Macintosh



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Dennis (and interested observers):



The latest version of PopChar is PopChar Pro 1.02 (from July 97) (as opposed to plain old

PopChar 2.72, the un-pro version). Before you install any other program, try downloading it

http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Archive/gui/popchar-pro-102.hqx and

re-installing. It should work.



If it still doesn't work, here are a couple of programs for viewing fonts on a Mac that you might

try (all available from http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.html).



FontVu: Application, easy interface. Dump it into your Apple Menu Items folder in the System

folder for easy access from the Apple Menu. Seemed a little slow, but I have a billion fonts

installed and ATM set to anti-alias fonts on-screen, so who knows?



QuickChar:Allows you to invoke the character representation with a keystroke. Uses control

panel and system extension. Possibly more complex than necessary.



FontClerk 6.2: Very comprehensive, definitely more complex than for the infrequent "is it option

'e' then the vowel?" kind of question. But still a good program.



Grant Barrett

gbarrett[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dfjp.com