COMMENT HPLJ-III.SPR by Allen Brunson, rev. by Jim Celoni, S.J. 9-2-91
INCLUDE hpallen.tct
SIZE 36 POINTTypeset TestENDS
This Sprint document is a test of Allen Brunson's LaserJet III printer driver and the as so ci at ed macros. This driver uses a rev o lu tion ary new con cept, name ly, "ly ing" to Sprint about the res o lu tion of the print er. While a LaserJet III can only real ly print 300 dots per inch, like al most all other las er print ers, this driver tricks Sprint into be liev ing it can do 1800 dots per inch. The net effect is that fonts scaled to var i ous sizes have vir tu al ly no scal ing errors, and there fore look much bet ter.
Notice that the right mar gin is set to 94, which gives a pret ty good ap prox i ma tion of where the line will ac tu al ly be bro ken in 12-point Times, the de fault font and size. This doc u ment ex er cises all pos si ble type faces, en hance ments, and good ies. (Some ex pect the stuff from the file @t[EXTRA.FMT] to have been added to your for mat file to work as ad ver tised.) The print er driv er and the as so ci at ed mac ros were de signed spe cific al ly with the LaserJet III in mind; mod i fi ca tion will no doubt be nec es sary for all other out put de vices.
R 94,T 5
SIZE 8 POINT
Small type. This par a graph is in 8-point type with a ragged right mar gin. It is an ex ample of how well Sprint can deal with small type on the LaserJet III when it's told that the hor i zon tal res o lu tion is 1800 dpi. It al most makes you won der where else in life "lit tle white lies" might ac tu al ly do you some good, doesn't it?
R 94,J,T 5
Now we're going to throw all sorts of diffi cult ma neu vers at it. First thing, the right mar gin is now jus ti fied, so it's going to have to even up the right mar gin on every line in this paragraph. Every now and then, I'm going to make it un der line a word or two. The way Sprint does un der lin ing by de fault re quires that it know the exact widths of all char ac ters on a line, espe cial ly when that line is jus ti fied. To try to real ly make Sprint sweat, I'm going to add some words with kern ing pairs in them, which also re quire spe cific spac ing, like Vol ume, Pan ther, Wells, Pesky, and Wand. And a little bit of ital ics, a font that seems to scale less pro por tion al ly than others. If you try to print this para graph with a LaserJet III driver that uses 300 dpi horizontally, you'll be very dis ap pointed.ENDS
R 94,T 5
SIZE 4 POINT
Really small type. Good ness, now we're down to 4 point! A ragged right mar gin is in effect. This is an ex ample of the how well Sprint can deal with small type on the LaserJet III when it's told that the hor i zon tal res o lu tion is 1800 dpi. It al most makes you won der where else in life "lit tle white lies" might ac tu al ly do you some good, doesn't it?
R 94,J,T 5
Now we're going to throw all sorts of difficult ma neu vers at it. First thing, the right mar gin is now jus ti fied, so it's going to have to even up the right mar gin on every line in this paragraph. Every now and then, I'm going to make it un der line a word or two. The way Sprint does un der lin ing by de fault re quires that it know the exact widths of all char ac ters on a line, espe cial ly when that line is jus ti fied. To try to real ly make Sprint sweat, I'm going to add some words with kern ing pairs in them, which also re quire spe cific spacing, like Vol ume, Pan ther, Wells, Pesky, and Wand. And a lit tle bit of ital ics, a font that seems to scale less pro por tion al ly than others. If you try to print this para graph with a LaserJet III driver that uses 300 dpi hor i zon tal ly, you'll be very dis ap pointed.ENDS
R 94,J,T 5,spacing 8.5pt
FONT LINEPRINTER
@notct(LinePrinter. This is the LinePrinter font. It is 8.5 points in size and mono spaced. As usu al, I'm in clud ing a lot of text so that you can see how mul ti ple lines of it will look to geth er. The font has has no bold and no ital ics. Here's some un der lin ing. It's not a ter ri bly at trac tive font, but I sup pose it would be good for an no tat ing graphs, big spread sheets, and the like.ENDF)
R 94,J,T 5,spacing 10pt
FONT COURIER10
@notct(Courier10. This is the Cou rier10 font. It's mono spaced; no tice how all the char ac ters are the same width. It is 10 points in size. As usu al, I'm in clud ing a lot of text so that you can see how mul ti ple lines of it will look to geth er. Here's some un der lin ing. This is Cou rier10 bold. This is Cou rier10 ital ic. There is no bold ital ic. May be I'd have been im pressed with this five years ago, but this font looks pret ty out moded to day.ENDF)
R 94,J,T 5,spacing 1
FONT COURIER
@notct(Courier. This is the Cou rier font. Still mono spaced. It is 12 points in size. As usu al, I'm in clud ing a lot of text so that you can see how mul ti ple lines of it will look to geth er. Here's some un der lin ing. This is Cou rier bold. This is Cou rier ital ic. There is no bold ital ic. This font is unim pres sive in 10 point, and it doesn't im prove much in 12 point, does it?ENDF)
R 94,T 5
Quotation marks. "Hoo boy," he said, "it sure is hot." "I think he said, `I don't know.'" "`I couldn't be sure' is real ly what he said." `A sen tence in sin gle quotes.' ("Dou ble quotes with in pa ren theses.") ["Dou ble quotes with in brack ets."] {"Dou ble quotes with in braces."} (`Sin gle quotes with in pa ren theses.') {`Single quotes with in brack ets.'} [`Single quotes with in braces.'] Spe cial case of some de lim i ters with in dou ble quotes: "(", ")", "[", "]", "{", and "}". Spe cial case of some de lim i ters with in sin gle quotes: `(', `)', `[', `]', `{', and `}'. "Forced" open dou ble quote: ``. "Forced" close dou ble quote: ''. ASCII 247d is a "forced" type writ er- like quote: ≈. Open single quote: `. Close sin gle quote: '.
Dashes. Double dashes -- such as these -- get turned into em-dashes. Sin gle dashes, like this - don't get translated.
Type size. This is reg u lar size. This is large size (1.414 times the nor mal size). Reg u lar again.
Type en hance ments. This is reg u lar text. This is bold text. This is ital i cized text. This is un der lined text. This is bold, ital i cized text. This is bold, ital i cized, un der lined text. Here's a line with some su per script in it. This line has sub script in it. This line is in strike through. Anoth er line of regular text.
FONT HELVETICA
Second proportional font. Times is the main pro por tion al, scal able font, but there's also Uni vers (font Helvetica), which we're in now. This is reg ular text. This is bold text. This is ital icized text. This is un der lined text. This is bold, ital i cized text. This is bold, ital i cized, un der lined text. Su per script, sub script, and strike through. "These are Uni vers dou ble quotes." `These are Uni vers sin gle quotes.'ENDF
A sam pling of IBM up per ASCII char ac ters. ┼ ╞ ╟ Ç ü é â ä à å ç ê ë è ï î ì Ä Å É æ Æ ô ö ò û ù ÿ Ö Ü ¢ £ ¥ ƒ á í ó ú ñ Ñ ª º ¿ ½ ¼ ¡ « » ß µ δ ± ° ■
Kern ing pairs. Re mem ber, kern ing pairs won't work if there's a soft hy phen be tween the two char ac ters. With the extra space re moved: AT, AV, AW, AY, Av, Aw, Ay, FA, Fa, Fo, LV, LW, LY, PA, Pa, Pe, Po, TA, Ta, Te, To, Tu, Ty, VA, VO, Va, Ve, Vo, WA, WO, Wa, We, Wo, YA, YO, Ya, Ye, Yo. With out the space re moved: @notct(AT, AV, AW, AY, Av, Aw, Ay, FA, Fa, Fo, LV, LW, LY, PA, Pa, Pe, Po, TA, Ta, Te, To, Tu, Ty, VA, VO, Va, Ve, Vo, WA, WO, Wa, We, Wo, YA, YO, Ya, Ye, Yo).
Ligatures. These are the five li ga tures: fi, fl, ff, ffi, and ffl. Like kern ing pairs, li ga tures won't get trans lat ed if there's a soft hy phen be tween any of the char ac ters. Words: fi nal, flow ing, Muffy, diffi cult, muffler. Un der lined: fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl, fi nal, flow ing, Muffy, diffi cult, muffler. Ital ics: fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl, fi nal, flow ing, Muffy, diffi cult, muffler. Un der lined ital ics: fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl, fi nal, flow ing, Muffy, diffi cult, muffler. Bold: fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl, fi nal, flow ing, Muffy, diffi cult, muffler. Bold ital ic: fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl, fi nal, flow ing, Muffy, diffi cult, muffler.
FONT HELVETICA
In Uni vers now: fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl. No tice that the fi and fl com bi na tions don't meld to geth er the way they do in Times; ff is the only real li ga ture. This isn't a bug in the print er driv er or macros; it's just the way this font is de signed. Words: fi nal, flow ing, Muffy, diffi cult, muffler. Ital ics: fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl, fi nal, flow ing, Muffy, diffi cult, muffler. Bold: fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl, fi nal, flow ing, Muffy, diffi cult, muffler. Bold ital ic: fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl, fi nal, flow ing, Muffy, diffi cult, muffler.ENDF
R 94,J,T 5
SIZE 10 POINT
Font sizes. This is Times in 10 point. It is prob a bly the sec ond most pop u lar size af ter 12 point. A lot of LaserJet III print er driv ers have prob lems with this size, but not this one. To prove it, I've started some spu ri ous un der lining, here's some ital ics, a lit tle bold, and worst of all, here come the kern ing pairs: VA, Vo, Ve, Aw, VA, LY, Fa, FA, and a lit tle more text to force Sprint to jus ti fy to the end of the line, and that should be just about enough to con vince the worst of the skep tics.ENDS
FONT HELVETICASIZE 10 POINT
In Uni vers now. This is 10 point. It is prob a bly the sec ond most pop u lar size af ter 12 point. A lot of LaserJet III print er driv ers have prob lems with this size, but not this one. To prove it, I've started some spu ri ous un der lining, here's some ital ics, a lit tle bold, and worst of all, here come the kern ing pairs: VA, Vo, Ve, Aw, VA, LY, Fa, FA, and a lit tle more text to force Sprint to jus ti fy to the end of the line, and that should be just about enough to con vince the worst of the skep tics.ENDSENDF
Bullets. This driv er pulls in sev eral bul let types from the Mi cro soft Pub lish ing char ac ter set, which are ideal for lists and the like (as dem on strated be low). The filled cir cles: @pub[@char(177) @char(178) @char(179)] Open cir cles: @pub[@char(180) @char(181) @char(182)] The filled squares: @pub[@char(183) @char(184) @char(185)] The open squares: @pub[@char(186) @char(187) @char(188)] The filled dia mond: @pub[@char(190)] The open dia mond: @pub[@char(191)]
BEGIN BULLETS
This is a bulleted list. This particular bullet item is really, really long, so as to dem on strate where the left and right margins will go. Justification is currently turned on. Isn't it a nice day? Aren't you glad you're alive? Aren't you happy you downloaded this printer driver? If I charged for this thing by the number of hours I put into it, believe me, you couldn't afford it.
This is the second bullet item.
This is the third bullet item.
BEGIN BULLETS
This is a sec ond- level bul let list in side the first one. No tice that the char ac ters at the be gin nings of the items have changed. (If you've made the change given to the Bul lets for mat in the @t[EXTRA.FMT] file, you'll get real bul lets.) Here's some more text. And a little more. Aren't las er print ers won der ful? What did you have to use be fore you got ac cess to one? Real ly? My old print er was even worse than that.
This is another second-level entry.
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This is a third- level en try, so now we're at the third level of the bul let list. These "sub- sub- points" be gin with even a third char ac ter. I'm not say ing what char ac ter any of these bul lets should be, be cause I want you to print this thing and find out for your self.
