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- DEFINING PRINTER ESCAPE CODES
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- You may set the escape codes to be sent to your printer, (for
- functions such as turning BOLD on and off, etc.), by going to the
- MODIFY DEFAULTS panel by pressing F8 and then F2. Once in this panel,
- move the Option Selection Bar by pressing the TAB key until it is
- above the field "Printer Escape Codes". Once there, press F10 and the
- "Print Marker and Code Definition" panel (displayed on a later screen
- in this HELP file) will be displayed.
-
- NOTE: If you escape from the "Print Marker and Code Definition"
- sub-panel by pressing the Esc Key, no changes you made while in
- the panel will become active. If you leave the panel by
- pressing F10, then all your changes will be recorded.
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- Press the PgDn Key
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- WHAT ARE YOU SETTING?
-
- Bold is turned on at the beginning of this line and turned off at the
- end of this sentence . The color, (or attribute) you see on the "B"
- and on the period may be set by you in the Print Marker and Code
- Definition panel. When you print a file in which you have made such
- marks, PC-TYPE+ will see that Bold must be turned on before sending
- the "B" to your printer, and must be turned off after sending the
- period to your printer.
-
- To turn Bold on and off, a sequence of special characters must be sent
- to your printer. In the Print Marker and Code Definition panel, you
- specify what these special characters must be. (Alas, there are no
- standards in the printer world!) PC-TYPE+ will find the characters you
- specified and send them to your printer wherever you requested to do
- so in your file.
-
- Press the PgDn Key
-
- Screen PRINT MARKER and CODE DEFINITION
- Printer Code Display
- Description Attribute Printer Escape Codes
- Bold On 48 E0
- Bold Off 48 F0
- Underline On 09 -0
- Undrline Off 09 -(0)0
- Italics On 01
- Italics Off 01
- Available 02 0
- Available 02 0
- Available 04 0
- Available 04 0
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- (AltB ^B) change Background ─┘ Numeric values entered with
- (AltF ^F) change Foreground Alt+decimal number on keypad
- Note: enter (0) for value zero.
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- Press the PgDn Key
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- In this panel, the TAB key will again move the Option Selection Bar.
- When the bar is on a "Printer Code Description" field, (such as:
- "Italics On"), You may modify the name to whatever you want with
- the twelve character positions available. The titles you supply in
- these fields will be displayed whenever you press F3, the Print
- Character Function Key.
-
- While it is assumed that you will have 6 pairs of escape codes, each
- pair consisting of turning a printer option on and off, it is not
- necessary to have pairs since they do not work together. All in all,
- therefore, you have 12 printer escape sequences available to you.
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- Notice that the Option Selection Bar will not go to the Underline Off
- and On fields. This is because underlining requires special
- programming inside PC-TYPE+ itself, hence it reserves these two
- locations for the underlining function.
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- Press the PgDn Key
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- Print Marker Screen Display Attributes
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- You may modify the screen display attributes of the Print Markers
- (which will appear in your text when you set an Escape code, e.g.,
- Bold On), by moving the Option Selection Bar to the "Screen Display
- Attribute" field.
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- AltF's will change the Foreground attribute (color) sequentially.
- CtrlF's will change the Foreground attribute in the reverse direction.
-
- AltB's will change the Background attribute (color) sequentially.
- CtrlB's will change the Background attribute in the reverse direction.
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- The numbers to the right will show you that indeed something is
- happening if you are doing this on a monochrome monitor. You can see
- the effect of your changes in the corresponding "Printer Escape Codes"
- field.
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- Press the PgDn Key
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- Setting the Escape Codes
-
- Finally, the Escape codes themselves may be changed by moving the
- Option Selection Bar to the "Printer Escape Codes" fields. Inside
- these fields, hold down the Alt key and press the decimal number
- corresponding to the Escape code number required.
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- For example, to get the "Esc" character "", hold down the Alt key and
- press the 2 and then the 7 on the number pad to the right of your
- keyboard. Then release the Alt key. Of course standard characters
- such as "E" may be typed in the normal manner.
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- Since the decimal 0 value cannot be entered in any fashion on the
- keyboard, you may enter the characters "(0)" (quotes not included)
- and PC-TYPE+ will convert this to the decimal zero when necessary.
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- Press F10 when finished - save your defaults if you wish, and you're
- done.
- Press F4 to Return to the HELP Menu
-