PLANNING YOUR FORMS
Virtual keyboard and font character maps
You can create virtual keyboard and font character maps and
store them in the XPRM database after installation. During the
compilation of forms, you can set the compiler to use the
character maps to enable keyboard–to–font character mapping.
Use the KEYBOARD parameter of the COMPILE command to
specify the keyboard map you want to use. The keyboard
characters are mapped to the corresponding graphic
representations of the characters in the Xerox printer fonts. For
more information on setting the compiler, refer to the “Using the
COMPILE command” section in the “Managing and printing
sample forms” chapter.
Normally, mapping is not required in the United States, but it is
required in the following situations:
• When there are differences between your terminal keyboard
configurations
• To accommodate varying character sets
• To accommodate the internal organization of characters
within different fonts.
You must use a keyboard character map to access a font
character map. In the United States, use the U.S. English
keyboard character map.
Generally, you map the keyboard character to the corresponding
character in each font used in the form. Figure 2–7 shows this
process. In the example, the neutral double quote (") on the
keyboard is mapped to the neutral double quote in the font.
Figure 2–7. Mapping process
Virtual keyboard
character map
Font character map
Keyboard
character
Xerox
character
identifier
Font
character
that prints
Keyboard
table
"
7F 000/042
"
Xerox
character
identifier
EBCDIC
Hexadecimal
code point
Keyboard emission
ASCII
Hexadecimal
code point
F2000/042
7F
HOST FORMS DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE 3.2 FOR IBM MVS CREATING FORMS 2–9
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