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- ║ HINTS AND KINKS E-1 ║
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- With !FONTASTIC!, the total power of your printer is
- opened to your access. Such power may seem a
- little complex to you at first, so in this section
- we provide some useful hints in gaining the full
- utilization from !FONTASTIC!. Here we will point out
- the most pleasing combinations of features to
- produce the desired effects in the final printed
- copy. Also we will point out certain features that
- will be incompatible with each other.
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- HARDWARE FEATURES VS.
- ALTERNATE FONTS
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- There are two (2) levels of support for printing
- with !FONTASTIC!:
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- 1) support of built-in features of the printer
- hardware.( double-wide, compressed, italics,
- superscript, etc.).
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- With the `control words' and `control
- characters' of !FONTASTIC!, you activate those
- built-in features of your printer such as
- underlining, compressed, wide, and italics
- printing. These features are activated by
- special printer control codes sent from
- IHSPRINT and are implemented by the printer
- hardware. In this first mode, it is important
- to remember that the character being printed
- is generated within the printer itself.
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- 2) support of the bit-graphics mode in
- utilization of the !FONTASTIC! generated
- characters.
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- The character definition for the second mode,
- however, comes from the font files on the
- diskette. It is this difference in character
- definition source that results in a basic
- incompatibility with certain functions. When
- utilizing alternate fonts, the hardware
- features (underlining, compressed, etc.)
- cannot be accessed. Therefore, if you wish to
- have an alternate font printing with
- underlining, the underlining must be part of
- the font character definition as generated by
- IHSFONT.
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- ║ E-2 HINTS AND KINKS ║
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- WORD PROCESSOR FUNCTIONS
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- Because !FONTASTIC! was designed to work with your
- word processor package, some documentation
- functions are not provided by !FONTASTIC!.
- Functions such as justification, pagination,
- titling, and footnoting should be performed during
- the creation of the text file. Once these
- functions have been performed against the file,
- you should then insert whatever !FONTASTIC! `Control
- words' and/or `Control characters' you want and run
- IHSPRINT.
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- PROPORTIONAL PRINTING
- VS. JUSTIFICATION
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- If you choose to print your document using
- proportional alternate fonts with text that has
- been justified(left and right), you will find that
- the right margins will no longer be maintained
- because of the compression of the character space.
- In order to maintain some effect of the right
- margin alignment, the ":JON" control word should be
- included within the text. The printed result will
- contain more space between the words but will
- retain right margin justification.
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- MIXING SCALE 1 AND SCALE 2
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- Mixing of Scale 1 and Scale 2 fonts on the same
- line of text is not allowed. Any mixing of fonts
- within one horizontal line of text must be of the
- same scale. The scale of the font character,
- however, may be changed from line to line with no
- restrictions.
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- TOP OF FORM CONTROL
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- Most printers supported by !FONTASTIC! have an
- automatic 'Top of Form' set when the printer is
- turned on. That is, wherever the paper is
- positioned when the printer is powered-on, will be
- the top-of-form. When alternate fonts have been
- utilized in printing of a document, you will find
- that the printer has 'lost' the top of form
- setting. This is because of the bit-graphics
- function requires the driving software to control
- the page length. As a general rule, it is good to
- place an ":EJECT" command at the end of you text
- file, causing printing the paper to be correctly
- positioned when finished. At this point, to reset
- the printer hardware for top of form, simply turn
- it off and back on.
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- THE SCALE COMMAND
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- The "SCALE" command provided in IHSPRINT allows you
- to enlarge any scale 1 character up to 10 times
- normal size. This provides you with power in
- sizing the printed character. However, the "SCALE"
- command is effected internally whenever you use
- certain other commands(even though not expressly
- issued). Selection of a scale 2 alternate font
- will automatically set the scale to "2". After
- printing a scale 2 font, you need to issue the
- ":SCALE 1" command when proceeding to an alternate
- scale 1 font. However, if you are just utilizing
- the default printer font(:FONT 0), the scaling
- function is automatically performed for you
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- ║ E-4 HINTS AND KINKS ║
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- SUBSCRIPTING - SUPERSCRIPTING
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- If you are using an Epson printer, be aware that
- you cannot subscript or superscript while printing
- in emphasized mode. You must turn off emphasized
- mode while printing in subscript or superscript
- mode.
- For example:
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- *The asterisk at the beginning of this line
- will cause this text to be printed in emphasized
- mode. Now if you want to put a word in
- superscript, *^like this^==*, for example, you
- would have to disengage emphasized printing.*
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- *The asterisk at the beginning of this line
- will cause this text to be printed in emphasized
- mode. Now if you want to put a word in
- superscript, *^like this^==*, for example, you
- would have to disengage emphasized printing.*
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