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- | Section 3: FONTS AND SYMBOLS |
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- CONTENTS
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- 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
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- 3.1 FONT ENHANCEMENTS
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- The following tags are used to start and cancel font enhancements:
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- <AU> Start Underline <XU> Cancel Underline
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- <underline thick= descent= > Set Underline thickness and descent
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- <AI> Start Italics <XI> Cancel Italics
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- <AB> Start Boldface <XB> Cancel Boldface
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- <AX> Start Crossout <XX> Cancel Crossout
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- 3.2 SOFT FONTS
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- The tags given below may be used to select the corresponding typefaces:
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- 3.2.1 RUBICON SOFT FONTS
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- <Renner> Renner (sans serif)
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- <Trajan> Trajan (serif)
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- 3.2.2 HEWLETT PACKARD FONTS
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- <Times> TmsRmn (soft font)
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- <Helv> Helv (soft font)
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- <Line_prn> Line Printer (ROM font)
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- <Courier> Courier (ROM font)
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- 3.2.3 ADOBE POSTSCRIPT FONTS
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- <Times> Times <Helv> Helvetica
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- <Courier> Courier <Palatino> Palatino
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- <Avant> AvantGarde <Bookman> Bookman
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- <Narrow> Helvetica-Narrow <Chancery> Zapf Chancery
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- <Dingbats> Zapf Dingbats <Century> New Century Schoolbook
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- 3.3 FONT CHANGES
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- <PTn> Point Size n
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- <Fn> Font Number n
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- <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
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- 3.4 SPACE COMMANDS
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- <M> Insert Em-Space (equal in length to the current point size)
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- <N> Insert En-Space (one-half of an em-space)
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- <T> Insert Thin-Space (one-third of an em-space)
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- <NB> Insert No Break Space (thin-space which will NOT be used as a
- location for a line break)
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- 3.5 ENABLING AND DISABLING THE PRINTHEAD
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- <XP> Cancel Print (printhead will move the appropriate distance but
- will not actually print characters)
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- <AP> Allow Print (resume printing after <XP> instruction)
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- 3.6 EXTRA SYMBOLS
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- 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.
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- <FL> Flash Only - Overprint next two characters - used to create
- composite characters not available in the pi font.
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- <M_> Print Em Rule (horizontal line one em long located on the baseline)
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- <N_> Print En Rule (one-half of an em rule)
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- <T_> Print Thin Rule (one-third of an em rule)
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- <line thick=t> Print Column Line of thickness t (horizontal line from
- left- to right-indent of current column. Default thick= 1 point)
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- <VR> Print Vertical Rule (vertical line extending up from the baseline
- a distance equal to the interline leading)
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- <M-> Print Em Dash (equal in length to the current point size)
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- <L-> Print Long Dash (three-quarters of an em dash)
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- <N-> Print En Dash (one-half of an em dash)
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- <T-> Print Thin Dash (one-third of an em dash)
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- <M.> Print Em Leader (a dot or period centered on an em-width space)
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- <N.> Print En Leader (a dot or period centered on an en-width space)
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- <T.> Print Thin Leader (a dot or period centered on a thin-width space)
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- <.> Print Digit Leader (a dot or period centered on a digit space,
- also known as a "decimal point" or "full point")
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