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\ENicePrint\F is a program that prints
out near-daisy-wheel quality characters on
graphics printers. Its greatest beauty is
that in normal use, you use the printer in
exactly the same way as before, except that
near-letter-quality characters are printed
instead of ordinary dot-matrix characters.
\ENicePrint\F loads underneath DOS, becoming
part of the operating system, and prints
\E\>anything\#\F directed to LPT1: in the high-
quality mode. Even LLIST from BASIC and
the PrtSc key print out in high-quality mode
when \ENicePrint\F is installed.
\ENicePrint\F supports \Eall\F of the ordinary
printer commands, so any program that
prints out correctly on the printer will
print out the same way with \ENicePrint\F,
except that it will print out in high
quality. Nothing need be changed to get
near-daisy-wheel printout from your printer.
In addition to this, \ENicePrint\F has six
font styles available: \x2default Roman, \x3Sans
Serif, \x4Orator, \x5Script, \x6Olde English,\x2 and
\x7Computer.\x2 \>Any \x3of these \x4fonts \x5may \x6be
\x7italicized.\x2\# There are also six available
pitches that each of the six font styles
may use:
Standard Pica (10-pitch)
\!AStandard Elite (12-pitch)\!@
\!DCondensed (17-pitch)\!@
\!bExpanded Pica (5-pitch)\!@
\!aExpanded Elite (6-pitch)\!@
\!dExpanded Condensed (8-1/2 pitch)
\!@
\EFurthermore, the Enhanced mode is supported
for all pitches.\F
It is also possible to print\xB
BIG letters(double height),\xN
\S0SUPER-\Tand \S1SUB-\Tscripts with printer controls,
and \-1underlining\-0 with printer controls.
To use \ENicePrint\F, just boot DOS, put in
the \ENicePrint\F disk, and type:
A>\ENICE\F
That's all. Now the printer behaves as if
the \ENiceFonts\F were its native character set.
To return to the native mode, type
Ctrl-Alt-F1. This still leaves \ENicePrint\F
loaded, so you may return to \ENicePrint\F
by typing Ctrl-Alt-F2. Ctrl-Alt-F10 will
cause a page eject in any of the modes.
An additional feature is the Ctrl-Alt-\\,
which causes the program to translate \\
into <esc>, and \\\\ into \\, facilitating
the embedding of printer commands in text.
Ctrl-Alt-\\ mode works both in
\ENicePrint\F mode and in native mode when
\ENicePrint\F is resident.
The remainder of the \ENicePrint\F
manual explains how to use the multiple
character sets and other features in
detail, and gives several examples of what
sorts of effects may be obtained.
s.
An additional feature is the Ctrl-Alt-\\,
which causes the program to