Text Rotation
Volume Number: 4
Issue Number: 2
Column Tag: Advanced Mac'ing
Looking At Text From a Different Angle 
By John D. Olse,
RPS, Bryan, TX
John D. Olsen is a Registered Public Surveyor in the State of Texas with approx
14 years experience in the field of Land Surveying and Civil Engineering. He is
currently attending Texas A&M University in pursuit of a B.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering. He is currently working at TAMU in the Veterinary Pathology Dept. at the
School of Veterinary Medicine. He supports and maintains a network of Macs
(approximately 35 machines). He is working on two vertical market applications for
the Macintosh. The first is a Scatchard Plot/Ligand Binding program. The second
‘on-going’ project is a CAD program for Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers involved
in land division, development and/or surveying.
“Yes, But Can You Type Upside Down?”
It seems that no matter what we get in the way of library routines, ROM code,
standard packages, etc there is always something that we think ‘just should have been
included’ as a part of the standard Toolbox routines. It seems one of the favorite things
to pick on with the Macintosh is the TextEdit routines in ROM.
Although Apple did ‘upgrade’ the TextEdit routines with the introduction of the
new machines most of us feel it is still lacking in several areas. The biggest complaint