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Selecting the current or default symbol set
Yourprintercan useeithertheprimaryor thesecondaryfontas itscurrent
font. And that currentfont has its currentsymbolset. Your printer also
remembemitsdefaultfontandsymbolset,whichareCourierwithRoman-
8 (unlessyou’vechangedtheirinitialparametervaluesthroughthe front
panelmenu).
The followingcommandletsyouselectoneof thosesymbolsetsfor your
primaryfont.
<ESC>( n @
For n enteroneofthe followingselectionvaluesforyourprimaryfont:
n VALUE
SELECTION
O(zero)or 1(one)
Selectsthedefaultsymbolset
2
Selectsthecurrentfont’ssymbolset(this
forcestheprinterto selectits bestmatch-
ing font)
3
Selectsall of thedefaultfont’sattributes
(notjust symbolset)
Similarly,youcanselecteitherthedefaultorthecurrentsymbolsetforyour
secondaryfont. You also may want to use the same symbolset for both
primaryandsecondaryfonts.
To do thesetasks, you can sendthe followingcommandto select which
symbolsetyouwantfor yoursecondaryfont:
<ESC>) n @
For n enteroncof thevaluesfromthistable:
n VALUE
SELECTION
O(zero) Selectsthedefaultsymbolset
1(one) Selectssamesymbolset as primaryfont
2
Selects’thecurrentfont’ssymbolset
3 Selectsall the default font’s attributes(notjust
symbolset)
Example: Symbol set commands
Let’stakeashortlookathowyouusethesecommands.Here’sthescenario:
YouarealreadyusingtheTmsRomntypeface,butwanttousetheGerman
symbolsetasyouarewritingareportforyourBerlinofficeandneedumlaut
charactersforseveralnamesin the report.
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