Using The Edition Manager

• receive Apple events from the Edition Manager

• set up a section record and alias record for open documents containing

• save a document that contains sections

• open a document that contains sections

• read and write sections

• create a publisher within a document, create its edition container, and

write data to it

• create a subscriber within a document and read its data from an

edition

To begin, you must determine whether the Edition Manager is available on

your system by using the Gestalt function. The Gestalt selector is

gestaltEditionMgrAttr ('edtn'). If the response parameter returns 1 in the bit

defined by the gestaltEditionMgrPresent constant (bit 0), the

If the Edition Manager is present, load it into memory using the

InitEditionPack function. This function determines whether your machine

has enough space in the system heap for the Edition Manager to operate.

If the InitEditionPack function returns noErr, you have enough space to

load the package. If you do not have enough space, the application can either

terminate itself or continue with the Edition Manager functionality

disabled.

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