Inside Macintosh: Text /

Preface - About This Book

Format of a Typical Chapter

Most chapters in this book follow a standard structure. For example, the chapter "TextEdit" contains these sections:

• "About TextEdit." This section provides an overview of the features provided by TextEdit.
• "Using TextEdit." This section describes the tasks you can accomplish using TextEdit. It describes how to use the most common routines, gives related user interface information, provides code samples, and supplies additional information.
• "TextEdit Reference." This section provides a complete reference to TextEdit by describing the constants, data structures, and routines that it uses. Each routine description also follows a standard format, which gives the routine declaration and description of every parameter of the routine. Some routine descriptions also give additional descriptive information, such as assembly-language information or result codes.
• "Summary of TextEdit." This section provides the Pascal interface and the C interface to TextEdit, defining the constants, data structures, routines, and result codes associated with TextEdit. It also includes relevant assembly-language interface information.

Some chapters contain additional main sections that provide more detailed discussions of certain topics. For example, in the chapter "Font Manager," the sections "About Fonts" and "About Font Resources" describe the capabilities and structure of the fonts that the Font Manager supports.