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- Documentation for Super MANDELZOOM 1.0
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- NOTE: Because I have a cheap third-party printer which doesn't have any
- kind of graphics capabilities, I decided to format this documentation in
- a 6-point Monaco font, which corresponds to the "compressed text" mode on
- my printer. Therefore, all the lines in this document are too long to read
- in 9-point Monaco, and you will have to put it in 6 point Monaco to read
- it. Do NOT use Geneva or some other proportional font, because it will
- screw up the tab spacing; all the nice equations and tables won't line up
- right.
-
- If you just want to read the documentation and don't care about printing
- or editing it, you can read it with MockWrite from within Super MANDELZOOM
- itself. Just put MockWrite in your system file, run Super MANDELZOOM and
- open MockWrite from there. Make sure you have MockWrite version 4.33 or
- later; earlier versions have been known to crash. When you select a file
- to edit (doesn't matter which file,) it will use the 6-point Monaco font.
- The reason for this is that the 6-point font is set up to have the same
- resource ID as Monaco-9 in Super MANDELZOOM's resource file. If you have a
- 128K Mac you won't be able to read the documentation this way.
-
- If you find that 6-point text is too hard to read, get a good printout
- and read the printout instead. To print or edit the file, you will have to
- open it with a "real" editor and set it in a 6-point monospace font.
- (MockWrite is much too slow when editing a file this large.)
-
- If you don't have a 6 point Monaco font, you can get it from your copy
- of Super MANDELZOOM 1.0 with the Font/DA mover. To do this, hold down the
- Option key when you hit the "Open..." button in the Font/DA Mover. Then it
- will let you select Super MANDELZOOM 1.0 from the list of files on your
- disk. When you do, you will find five fonts - Times 10 and 18 and Narrow
- Monaco 9, 10, and 18. Narrow Monaco 9 is the font used for this
- documentation; 18 is useful if you are going to print it in "high quality."
- (If you have a Mac XL or some other large-screen system you can use Narrow
- Monaco 10 or normal Monaco and still be able to fit it on the screen.)
- This file uses tabs set on every eighth column starting with column number
- 9 (this is the default for most text-only editors)
-
- If possible, you should use a text-only editor to edit or print this
- file. Text-only editors are much faster than full-format editors like
- MacWrite. I only know of two text-only editors, the MDS editor (which
- comes with most Macintosh C and assembly-language development systems) and
- MEdit (a shareware version designed to replace the MDS Editor.) In the MDS
- editor you can print in draft mode and it will use the compressed-text mode
- on the Imagewriter. If you are a BASIC or PASCAL programmer you might find
- it easier to write a short program that will print this out in compressed
- mode. If you do this, be aware of the fact that this file uses tabs and
- several special characters (like "¥", "¦", "¯", etc.) that cannot be sent
- to the printer directly.
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