#Adobe NFNTs?
"From the bottom up" means from the last referenced fon to the first
(which still doesn't make any sense). Here's an example family:
StonePlain > Italic & Semi & Semi Italic
Italic > Semi Italic
Semi > Semi Italic & Bold & Bold Italic
Semi Italic > Bold Italic
Bold > Bold Italic
Here, the ">" means "FOND refers to". if you look at "plain" as the
"top", and "BoldItalic" as the "bottom", then you would combine families
(with Font/DA Mover) as follows:
BoldItalic -> Bold -> SemiItalic -> Semi -> Italic -> Plain
Since the Italics are combined with other files already, however, the
actual order becomes:
StoneOther -> StoneSemi -> StonePlain,
since this best approximates the "bottom to top" order. You still may
lose the "Italic" references, but this won't matter if you convert to NFNTs
(those references become unnecessary…NFNTs don't themselves refer to
anything). Italics are the "least" important of any family, since they are
ALWAYS referred to by some other FOND (so far).
In the example family above, "StonePlain" is the parent FOND, with
"Semi" & "Bold" also parents; since this is confusing, my preference is to
leave all three as FONTs, and convert the rest to NFNTs (invisible in
menus). True, you would need only two FONDs (Plain and -either- Semi or
Bold), but I feel it better to include more if there might be confusion.
For example, in the case of Stone, leaving Plain & Bold in menus means
accessing Semi thru "bold" in the Style menu; but if I were a Mac novice, I
would think StonePlain made "bold" would be BOLD…the Semi that appears on
screen (and printout) would be confusing.
BTW – yes, I did enter a great many of the altered references (about half
of the Adobe families) myself using ResEdit, but not Hexadecimally – I used
the standard FONT & FOND templates, so all numbers were entered via keypad.
I have several ECL fles that automate the determination of "correct" ID
numbers for FONT resources, so I didn't have to use a calculator all the
time.