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║ HINTS AND KINKS E-1 ║
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With !FONTASTIC!, the total power of your printer is
opened to your access. Such power may seem a
little complex to you at first, so in this section
we provide some useful hints in gaining the full
utilization from !FONTASTIC!. Here we will point out
the most pleasing combinations of features to
produce the desired effects in the final printed
copy. Also we will point out certain features that
will be incompatible with each other.
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HARDWARE FEATURES VS.
ALTERNATE FONTS
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There are two (2) levels of support for printing
with !FONTASTIC!:
1) support of built-in features of the printer
hardware.( double-wide, compressed, italics,
superscript, etc.).
With the `control words' and `control
characters' of !FONTASTIC!, you activate those
built-in features of your printer such as
underlining, compressed, wide, and italics
printing. These features are activated by
special printer control codes sent from
IHSPRINT and are implemented by the printer
hardware. In this first mode, it is important
to remember that the character being printed
is generated within the printer itself.
2) support of the bit-graphics mode in
utilization of the !FONTASTIC! generated
characters.
The character definition for the second mode,
however, comes from the font files on the
diskette. It is this difference in character
definition source that results in a basic
incompatibility with certain functions. When
utilizing alternate fonts, the hardware
features (underlining, compressed, etc.)
cannot be accessed. Therefore, if you wish to
have an alternate font printing with
underlining, the underlining must be part of
the font character definition as generated by
IHSFONT.
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║ E-2 HINTS AND KINKS ║
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WORD PROCESSOR FUNCTIONS
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Because !FONTASTIC! was designed to work with your
word processor package, some documentation
functions are not provided by !FONTASTIC!.
Functions such as justification, pagination,
titling, and footnoting should be performed during
the creation of the text file. Once these
functions have been performed against the file,
you should then insert whatever !FONTASTIC! `Control
words' and/or `Control characters' you want and run
IHSPRINT.
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PROPORTIONAL PRINTING
VS. JUSTIFICATION
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If you choose to print your document using
proportional alternate fonts with text that has
been justified(left and right), you will find that
the right margins will no longer be maintained
because of the compression of the character space.
In order to maintain some effect of the right
margin alignment, the ":JON" control word should be
included within the text. The printed result will
contain more space between the words but will
retain right margin justification.
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MIXING SCALE 1 AND SCALE 2
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Mixing of Scale 1 and Scale 2 fonts on the same
line of text is not allowed. Any mixing of fonts
within one horizontal line of text must be of the
same scale. The scale of the font character,
however, may be changed from line to line with no
restrictions.
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TOP OF FORM CONTROL
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Most printers supported by !FONTASTIC! have an
automatic 'Top of Form' set when the printer is
turned on. That is, wherever the paper is
positioned when the printer is powered-on, will be
the top-of-form. When alternate fonts have been
utilized in printing of a document, you will find
that the printer has 'lost' the top of form
setting. This is because of the bit-graphics
function requires the driving software to control
the page length. As a general rule, it is good to
place an ":EJECT" command at the end of you text
file, causing printing the paper to be correctly
positioned when finished. At this point, to reset
the printer hardware for top of form, simply turn
it off and back on.
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THE SCALE COMMAND
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The "SCALE" command provided in IHSPRINT allows you
to enlarge any scale 1 character up to 10 times
normal size. This provides you with power in
sizing the printed character. However, the "SCALE"
command is effected internally whenever you use
certain other commands(even though not expressly
issued). Selection of a scale 2 alternate font
will automatically set the scale to "2". After
printing a scale 2 font, you need to issue the
":SCALE 1" command when proceeding to an alternate
scale 1 font. However, if you are just utilizing
the default printer font(:FONT 0), the scaling
function is automatically performed for you
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║ E-4 HINTS AND KINKS ║
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SUBSCRIPTING - SUPERSCRIPTING
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If you are using an Epson printer, be aware that
you cannot subscript or superscript while printing
in emphasized mode. You must turn off emphasized
mode while printing in subscript or superscript
mode.
For example:
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*The asterisk at the beginning of this line
will cause this text to be printed in emphasized
mode. Now if you want to put a word in
superscript, *^like this^==*, for example, you
would have to disengage emphasized printing.*
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*The asterisk at the beginning of this line
will cause this text to be printed in emphasized
mode. Now if you want to put a word in
superscript, *^like this^==*, for example, you
would have to disengage emphasized printing.*
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