The printer-macro feature lets you customize your copy of this word processor so you can take full advantage of your printer's capabilities. If RUN Script Plus ever seems to "hang up" mysteriously during a printout, check your printer, which must be on when output to the screen occurs.
You may select any upper- or lowercase alphabetic character to be a macro character. For example, let's say you own a printer that requires the sequence ESC X (decimal values 27 and 88) to start printing double-width characters. With the Define Macro program, you can select a character--D, for instance--to represent this two-character string. Then, when D is encountered during printing, the decimal sequence 27,88 will be sent to the printer to produce double-width characters. You could define another character, perhaps d, to cancel printing double-width characters.
To create a double-width heading, first place the cursor in front of the heading, then press the F3 key. A "*mac*" message will appear on the status line. Next, press the upper- or lowercase alphabetic character you've chosen to activate the double-width capability (in my example, D). Finally, move the cursor to the end of the heading, press F3 again, and press the key you've chosen to deactivate the double-width feature (d, in my example).
You can create a table of 52 different macro definitions, each of which can be from one to 20 characters long.
M--F1,M selects the macro characters that should be turned off before printing the left margin, a header or a footer. RUN Script Plus expects the same macro letter to be used to activate and deactivate printer functions. For example, if underlining is turned on with uppercase U, a lowercase u is needed to cancel it, and vice versa.
m--F1,m loads a set of macros as defined with the Define Macros program (see discussion below). If you are using a C-128, you must run Define Macros in 64 mode, not 128 mode. However, the macro table it creates can be used with the C-128 version of RUN Script Plus.
