17. A method for managing fonts and for selecting fonts for use in applications running under a graphics operating system on a computer, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a supplementary font manager program to control access by a user to fonts installed in the graphics operating system, said supplementary font manager program operating as an interface between the installed fonts and the user; (b) presenting a list of the fonts installed in the graphics operating system to the user with the supplementary font manager program; (c) enabling the user to select at least one of the fonts installed in the graphics operating system to be a hidden font with the supplementary font manager program, said hidden font being so called because it is not displayed in a menu of fonts, said menu of fonts thus comprising less than all of the fonts installed in the graphics operating system; (d) enabling the user to change the fonts in the menu of fonts using the supplementary font manager program; and (e) making all fonts that are installed on the graphics operating system available for use in documents by any application requesting them, even if said fonts include the hidden font, which is not displayed in a list of fonts from which the user may select a font within any application and is not included in the menu of fonts created by the user using the supplementary font manager program.
17. A method for managing fonts and for selecting fonts for use in applications running under a graphics operating system on a computer, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a supplementary font manager program to control access by a user to fonts installed in the graphics operating system, said supplementary font manager program operating as an interface between the installed fonts and the user; (b) presenting a list of the fonts installed in the graphics operating system to the user with the supplementary font manager program; (c) enabling the user to select at least one of the fonts installed in the graphics operating system to be a hidden font with the supplementary font manager program, said hidden font being so called because it is not displayed in a menu of fonts, said menu of fonts thus comprising less than all of the fonts installed in the graphics operating system; (d) enabling the user to change the fonts in the menu of fonts using the supplementary font manager program; and (e) making all fonts that are installed on the graphics operating system available for use in documents by any application requesting them, even if said fonts include the hidden font, which is not displayed in a list of fonts from which the user may select a font within any application and is not included in the menu of fonts created by the user using the supplementary font manager program. 24. The method of claim 17, further comprising the step of graphically displaying a plurality of different parameters that determine shapes and attributes of characters comprising the plurality of fonts to the user, to enable the user to select and set selected parameters from among the plurality of parameters, to determine the fonts included in the menu of fonts.