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Youprobablywon’tchangesymbolsetsveryoften,unlessyouneedspeciaI
symbolsforyourtradeor regularlywritein alanguageotherthanEnglish.
Whenyoudoneedthem,though;inoneoranotheremulationmodeyourStar
Laserl%intcr8 supportssymbolsetsfor allthesecountries:
U.S.(ASCII) UnitedKingdom
France
Germany
Sweden
Finland
Italy
Denmark
Norway
Spain
Besidestheseyourprintersupportssetscontainingjustsymbols,suchasthe
Greekalphabet(B),logicsymbols(S),arrows(#), theregisteredtrademark
symbol(Q) andso on.
Each emulat~onhas symbol sets
Yourlaserprinterworksby emulatingor followingcommandsdeveloped
originallyforotherprinters.OneoftheStarLaserPrinter8’sadvantagesis
thatitoffersyouachoiceofseveralbuilt-insymbolsetsforeachfontineach
emulation.
TheactualEX-800,PropnnterandDiabloprintersdon’tusesymbolsetsto
produceinternationalaccentedcharactersandspecialsymbols.Instead,the
EX-800 and Propnnter let you define which charactersyou want with
parameter settings, and the Diablo lets you change pnntwhcels. Both
approachesproducemuchthe sameeffectasswitchingsymbolsets,how-
ever,so we~llstickto thissingleconceptthroughoutthismanual.
WhenyourStarLaserPrinter8is emulatingtheHPLaserJetH,thenormal
default’symbolset is the Roman-8set. Roman-8includesall the usual
keyboardcharacters,numbersandsymbolsinASCII,plusaccentedforeign-
languagecharactersandspecialsymbols(butnothingforlinedrawing).
Tocomplementthese,intheProprinteremulationyourStarLaserPrinter8
offerstwoseparateIBMsymbolsets.Theseincludestandardline-drawing
andmathematicalsymbolsalongwith foreigncharacters.That makesthe
StarLaserPnntcr8agoodmatchforhundredsofwordprocessingandother
programs that expect these symbols, which most font designemomit
(especiallytheIBMHappyFace).
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