Inside Macintosh: Text /

Preface - About This Book

Among personal computers, the Macintosh computer is foremost in the areas of desktop publishing, page layout, high-end graphical word processing, and international text presentation. The Macintosh computer's capabilities in these areas is due in large part to its unique and powerful support for text handling. Inside Macintosh: Text describes how you can use that support to put superior text capabilities into your software.

This book documents the parts of Macintosh system software that allow you to generate and manipulate text, including text in multiple languages. It includes introductory material on the Macintosh approach to text handling, as well as a complete technical reference to each of the text-handling managers in the system software.

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Preface Contents

What to Read

Format of a Typical Chapter

Conventions Used in This Book

Special Fonts

Types of Notes

Development Environment

Developer Products and Support