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- CHARACTER TRANSLATION FOR YOUR PRINTER
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- Suppose you have drawn a box on your screen like the ┌─────────────┐
- one shown on your right, and then you want to print │ │
- your file. If your printer is not able to print the │ │
- characters which make up the box, you may end up with │ │
- a box on your printed sheet that looks like the one │ │
- shown below. └─────────────┘
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- CMMMMMMMMMMMMMC With the Printer Translation Table +-------------+
- D D capability in PC-TYPE+, you could : :
- D D define alternative characters to : :
- D D be sent to your printer to end up : :
- D D with a box that might look like the : :
- CMMMMMMMMMMMMMC one shown on the right. +-------------+
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- Press the PgDn Key
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- The process could be viewed as shown below.
- ┌──────┐ ┌─────────┐
- │ File │ │ Xlation │ ┌─────────┐
- │ Data │---abcde--│ Table │---ABCDE--│ Printer │
- │ │ │ Info │ └─────────┘
- └──────┘ └─────────┘
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- In this example the translation table might look like:
- ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Translation Table │
- ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
- │ Change this character to this character │
- │ a A │
- │ b B │
- │ c C │
- │ ... ... │
- └───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- Press the PgDn Key
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- To set up your Translation Table you must enter the "Modify Defaults"
- Panel and select the "Character Translation Table" option by tabbing
- to that field and then pressing the F10 key.
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- (Before you do this, read the following.)
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- You can always return to your edit screen by pressing Esc once or
- twice and answering No to the question "Do you want to save..."
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- Okay, take a look. You get to the Modify Defaults panel by pressing
- F8 and then F2. Just look at the table and escape back to here.
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- Press the PgDn Key
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- You may have noticed that there was a symbol highlighted under the
- '' character and a period under the '·' character. (The symbol under
- the '' will appear any time you want to replace a character to be
- sent to your printer with a space.)
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- The '' is the "Hard-Space" marker which will be translated into a
- normal space before being sent to the printer, and the '·' is the
- "Soft-Period" marker which will be translated into a normal period
- before being sent to the printer.
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- In general, to read the table:
- (1) Any character with no highlighted character beneath it will be
- sent to the printer with no modification.
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- (2) Any highlighted character will be sent to the printer instead of
- the unhighlighted character above it.
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- Press the PgDn Key
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- To cause a capital 'A' to be sent to your printer every time a small
- 'a' is encountered in a file being printed, you must move the cursor
- in the Translation Table to the 'a' character and then press F10.
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- In the new display panel of characters, move the cursor to the
- character 'A' and press F10. If you do this, you will see that a
- highlighted 'A' will appear under the unhighlighted character 'a'.
- Try it.
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- (In both panels you may use the Enter, End, Home, ... keys.)
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- (Remember, F8/F2 gets you to the Modify Defaults panel. Tab to the
- Print Character Replacement option and press F10. The Esc key will
- get you back to here.)
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- If you now printed a file within PC-TYPE+, every 'a' in the file would
- be sent to your printer as an 'A'.
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- Press the PgDn Key
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- The change you just made to the Printer Translation Table will not be
- permanent until you exercise the "Save Defaults" option under F8 or
- answer 'Y' to the question "Save Modifications" when exiting the
- Modify Defaults panel.
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- We suggest you go back and change the translation back to normal.
- If you do, notice that the highlighted 'A' disappears.
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- Press F4 to Return to the HELP Menu
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