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In brief
I supply here modified Wordperfect printer and font files for the
LA50/LA100 and for the LN03 laser printer. They have been tested with WP 4.1
and 4.2 and seem OK with both. The LN03 driver allows access to
all the fonts and to all available greek and a selection of technical
characters.
The main change for the LA50/100 is the merging of the normal and line-
drawing character sets: lower case letters and line-drawing characters can now
be intermingled. The printer is also reset to draft mode on exit.
Files supplied:
WPFONT ALL ) Wordperfect font and printer files in
WPRINTER ALL ) WP4.1/2 master file format
READ NOW :-- This ASCII file
HELP WP : Wordperfect file to be printed with these
WPFONT.FIL and WPRINTER.FIL files (see below)
LAND MAC ) Wordperfect macros: see HELP.WP
PORT MAC )
MULT MAC )
General Philosophy
I have modified the printer drivers and fonts for the LA50/100 and LN03
(laser printer) to allow easy access to the characters available in the DEC
technical character set, principally the Greek Alphabet, and to selected
characters from the VT100 Special graphics character set , which is in all the
printers mentioned. The LN03 comes equipped with the technical character
set. The technical character set is available on a ROM cartridge for the
LA100 (and LA210). I don't have one and so haven't modified the printer
driver to access it. The LA50 doesn't have the technical character set
available: I envision using it as a draft printer: the corresponding character
from the Multinational character set print instead of the technical
characters.
Both printer drivers use the same font file (DEC LN03 8 bit). Special
characters are entered as Compose characters and appear on the screen as the
corresponding character from the Multinational character set. Most of the
technical characters display their true selves on the screen if the Technical
Character ROM set is installed. Those characters which can be correctly
displayed with the standard ROM set are so displayed, and hence display
incorrectly with the Technical Character ROM present.
With this setup the LA50/100 can print the Line-drawing character set as
part of the standard font, enabling one to use the line-drawing characters
with lower case letters. The drive supplied by WordPerfect had the line-
drawing characters in a separate font (Font 2, DEC Line Draw) which only
printed upper case letters.
Installation
1) For WP 4.1 the files should be called WPRINTER.ALL and WPFONT.ALL.
2) For WP 4.2 they are called WPRINT1.ALL and WPFONT1.ALL.
First rename them if necessary.
From the "Print" option in WP select option 4 (Printer Control) and then
select option 3 (Select printers). Press Shift-Next Screen : WP prompts you
for the drive containing WPFONT.ALL and WPRINTER.ALL. Put my WPFONT.ALL and
WPRINTER.ALL files in an appropriate drive and tell WP so (the current
directory of a hard disk partition works fine). You can then select the
printer drivers you need in the order you desire (see WP manual for details).
You can easily delete from WPRINTER.FIL and WPFONT.FIL (to save disk space)
those fonts and printer definitions you never use by using the PRINTER
program. This procedure will add my definitions to those you have already
selected. To replace existing ones: delete your working copies of WPFONT.FIL
and WPRINTER.FIL (and {WP}SYS.FIL as well) before selecting new definitions.
Having installed the printers, you may then print the supplied
(WordPerfect) file HELP.WP, which offers some help in the use of Compose
Characters, as well as thoughts on the use of the Line drawing option. The
macros supplied are also described. The file also produces a two page
"Cheat Sheet" listing the characters available and the compose sequences that
produce them, as well as examples of all the fonts and pitches available. It
also shows how the characters appear on the screen and print on the LA50.
Supplied free for the benefit of Rainbow WordPerfect Users by:
Andrew Taylor
Hutchinson Cancer Center, M621
1124 Columbia Street,
Seattle, WA 98104
(206)-467-4431
April 30, 1987
Fidomail to Glacier Peak Fido (Net 343, node 3, phone (206)-644-8431 )
Comments, complaints, criticisms and pleas for help cheerfully accepted during
normal working hours. Praise, money and thanks accepted at all hours.