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| Section 3: FONTS AND SYMBOLS |
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CONTENTS
3.1 Font Enhancements
3.2 Soft Fonts
3.3 Font Changes
3.4 Space Commands
3.5 Enabling and Disabling the Printhead
3.6 Extra Symbols
3.1 FONT ENHANCEMENTS
The following tags are used to start and cancel font enhancements:
<AU> Start Underline <XU> Cancel Underline
<underline thick= descent= > Set Underline thickness and descent
<AI> Start Italics <XI> Cancel Italics
<AB> Start Boldface <XB> Cancel Boldface
<AX> Start Crossout <XX> Cancel Crossout
3.2 SOFT FONTS
The tags given below may be used to select the corresponding typefaces:
3.2.1 RUBICON SOFT FONTS
<Renner> Renner (sans serif)
<Trajan> Trajan (serif)
3.2.2 HEWLETT PACKARD FONTS
<Times> TmsRmn (soft font)
<Helv> Helv (soft font)
<Line_prn> Line Printer (ROM font)
<Courier> Courier (ROM font)
3.2.3 ADOBE POSTSCRIPT FONTS
<Times> Times <Helv> Helvetica
<Courier> Courier <Palatino> Palatino
<Avant> AvantGarde <Bookman> Bookman
<Narrow> Helvetica-Narrow <Chancery> Zapf Chancery
<Dingbats> Zapf Dingbats <Century> New Century Schoolbook
3.3 FONT CHANGES
<PTn> Point Size n
<Fn> Font Number n
<Fontnamenw> Font "Fontname", Point Size n, Stroke Weight w
n can be any available point size
w can be m (medium), b (bold), or i (italic)
EXAMPLES: <Times12m> Times 12-point medium
<Trajan10i> Trajan 10-point italic
<Helv18b> Helvetica 18-point bold
3.4 SPACE COMMANDS
<M> Insert Em-Space (equal in length to the current point size)
<N> Insert En-Space (one-half of an em-space)
<T> Insert Thin-Space (one-third of an em-space)
<NB> Insert No Break Space (thin-space which will NOT be used as a
location for a line break)
3.5 ENABLING AND DISABLING THE PRINTHEAD
<XP> Cancel Print (printhead will move the appropriate distance but
will not actually print characters)
<AP> Allow Print (resume printing after <XP> instruction)
3.6 EXTRA SYMBOLS
The Rubicon soft fonts, and most other soft fonts, include a set of
extra characters called the "Pi Font" - symbols, accented letters, etc.
- identified by high ASCII numbers, i.e character numbers between 160
and 255. The tag <PIn> is used to print character n from the Pi Font.
<FL> Flash Only - Overprint next two characters - used to create
composite characters not available in the pi font.
<M_> Print Em Rule (horizontal line one em long located on the baseline)
<N_> Print En Rule (one-half of an em rule)
<T_> Print Thin Rule (one-third of an em rule)
<line thick=t> Print Column Line of thickness t (horizontal line from
left- to right-indent of current column. Default thick= 1 point)
<VR> Print Vertical Rule (vertical line extending up from the baseline
a distance equal to the interline leading)
<M-> Print Em Dash (equal in length to the current point size)
<L-> Print Long Dash (three-quarters of an em dash)
<N-> Print En Dash (one-half of an em dash)
<T-> Print Thin Dash (one-third of an em dash)
<M.> Print Em Leader (a dot or period centered on an em-width space)
<N.> Print En Leader (a dot or period centered on an en-width space)
<T.> Print Thin Leader (a dot or period centered on a thin-width space)
<.> Print Digit Leader (a dot or period centered on a digit space,
also known as a "decimal point" or "full point")