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0660203030466 11st WordInstallation Guide 2Preliminarypage #7th February 1986 9[....................................................] ü1STWORD Ç üPrinterInstallationGuide Ç ëCONTENTS Ç 1 Introduction 2 FileFormat 3 PrinterName 4 ConfigurableVariables 5 PrinterCharacteristics 6 CharacterTranslationTable ü1 IntroductionÇ Thisdocumentisintendedforanyonewhowantstocreatea printerconfigurationfileforaprinternotyetsupportedby GST.Itexplainstheformatandcontentsoftheprinter configurationfile,andhowitisusedbytheprinterdriver. TheexistingprinterconfigurationfilesforQumeandEpson compatibleprintersshouldbereadasexamples. Whenproducingaconfigurationforaprinter,itmayprove necessarytoconfiguretheprinteritself:manyprintershave setsofswitcheswhichaffectthingssuchasautolinefeedor paperlength.TheexistingEpsonprinterconfigurations assumethattheprinterissetforaUSAcharacterset,noLF afterCR,andnoperforationskip. Withdaisywheelprinters,theactualdaisywheelinusewill affecttherequirementsforthecharactertranslationtable. IfyouaredrivingtheprinteronanRS232serialline,you mayneedtoexperimentwiththecableconnections.Youmust connectthehardwarehandshakelines,astheprinterdriver doesnotusetheXON/XOFFhandshake.Thecableweuseis connectedasfollows,andworksformostprinters: AtariST Printer  Protect 1-----------1 TXdata 2-----------3 Handshake 5-----------20 SignalGround 7-----------7 ü2 FileFormatÇ Theprinterconfigurationfileisatextfilewhichcanbe editedusing1stWord.Mostofthedatainthefileis numeric,andnumbersareassumedtobeinhexadecimal(base 16).Linesstartingwithanasterisk(*)arecomments. ThisfileisreadbyaprogramcalledINSTALL.PRGwhichpacks thisdataintoasmallbinaryfilewhichisthenusedbythe printerdriver. Thedataheldinthefilefallsintofoursections,described insections3to6below. ü3 PrinterNameÇ Thefirstnon-blanklineinthefile(excludingcomments)is assumedtobethenameoftheprinter.Thisnameis displayedintheprinterdriver'swindow. ü4 MiscellaneousConfigurableVariablesÇ Thissectioncontainsalistofsixnumbers,onaline together.Theyaredescribedbelow. ü4.1 PrinterTypeÇ Thisshouldbe1foradaisywheelprinterwhichallowsfine controloverhorizontalandverticalprinting.Zerohere indicatesadotmatrixprinter,orsomeothertypeof printer.Daisywheelprinterswhichdonotallowfinecontrol ofpositioning(egBrotherHR-1)shouldbeinstalledlike this. Theprinterdrivertreatsthetwotypesofprinterquite differently.Onadaisywheelprinter,thespacesbetween wordsareadjustedtospreadoutthespaceevenlybetweenthe words.Thismeansthatinordertounderlinespaces, underliningisdoneasaseparatepassafterthetext.In NLQmode,changestoandfromitalictextcausetheprogram topausetoallowthedaisywheeltobechanged. Itisassumedthatnon-daisywheelprintershavecommand sequencestocontrolunderliningandothertextstyles:the commandissenttotheprinter,buttheprinterdriverdoes nomorethanthat.Therearedifferentcommandsequencesto besentindraftmodeandNLQmode. ü4.2 UnitWidthÇ (Daisywheelonly)Thisspecifiesthewidthofonecharacter intheprinter'sownwidthunits. ü 4.3 UnitHeightÇ (Daisywheelonly)Thisspecifiesthesizeofalinefeedin theprinter'sownheightunits. ü4.4 MiddleofcarriageÇ (Daisywheelonly)Thisspecifiesthepositionthedaisywheel ismovedtowhenfeedingpaper:itshouldnormallybeinthe middleofthepaper.Thepositionisspecifiedinprinter unitsfromtheleftmargin. ♪≤ü4.5 CarriageshiftforBoldÇ (Daisywheelonly)Thisspecifiesahorizontaloffsetusedby theprinterdriverwhenprintingboldtext:itprintsthe characteronce,movesalongafraction,andprintsagain. ü4.6 PausebetweenpagesÇ Ifzero,theprinterdriverdoesnotpausebetweenpages.If nonzero,theprinterdriverpausesattheendofeachpageto allowthepapertobechanged. Thiswasnotpresentonearlyversionsoftheprogram:if yourprinterconfigurationfileshaveonlyfiveentrieshere, contactyourdealer(orAtari)forthenewversion. ü5 PrinterCharacteristicsÇ Thisisatableofcommandsequenceswhichmaybesenttothe printer.Notallofthetableentriesmustbepresent,but theymustbeinincreasingnumericorder. Eachtableentry,ifpresent,startswithitsentrynumber. Thecodestobesenttotheprinterthenfollow.Acomment maybeincludedonthelineafteranasterisk.Avaluemore than80(hex)isaplace-holderforvariablebinary informationtobesenttotheprinter:thedifferenceafter subtracting80isaddedtothevaluetobeoutput.(For example,onaQume-compatibleprinter,commandstocontrol characterwidthrequireavaluetobeoutputofwidth+1,so theplaceholderinthecommandis81.) Thetableisterminatedbyanullentry,buttheremustbeat leastonenon-zeroentrybeforethis. Inadditiontotheinitialisationstringslistedbelow,the printerdriversendsallthecommandswhichturnoffprint stylesatthestartofadocument. ü5.0 SetCharacterWidthÇ (Daisywheelonly)Thiscommandisusedtosendcharacter widthchangestotheprinter.Itshouldcontainaplaceholder forthewidth. ü5.1 LinefeedÇ Thiscommandcontainsthecodetobesenttotheprinterat theendofaline.Typically,itisjustalinefeedfor daisywheelprintersbeingdrivenbidirectionally,orlinefeed andcarriagereturnfordotmatrixprinters. ü5.2 ForwardPrint 5.3 BackwardPrint Ç (Daisywheelonly)Thesearethecommandstotelltheprinter whichdirectiontomovetheprinthead. ♪∙ü5.4 VerticalTabÇ (Optional)Thiscommandfeedsthepaperbyseverallines.The commandshouldincludeaplaceholderforthelinenumber.If thiscommandsequenceisomittedfromthetable,several linefeedswillbeusedinstead. ♪⑦Thereisaslightproblemwithusingverticaltabsonsome printers.Ifyouhaveadocumentwithover-longlines,and theprinterautomaticallywrapslineswhicharetoolong, thismaycausetheprinter'slinenumbertogetoutofstep withtheprogram'slinenumber.Verticaltabswouldthen typicallyskiptothestartofthenextpage. ü5.5 AbsoluteHorizontalTabÇ (Non-daisywheel,optional)Thiscommandisthehorizontal equivalentoftheabove:itmoveshorizontallytoaspecified characterposition. ü5.6 DraftBoldOn Ç (Non-daisywheel,optional)Thisandthefollowingstyle changecommandsaresenttotheprintertoswitchitintothe appropriatetextstyle.Thereareseparatecommandsequences tobesentinbothdraftmodeandNLQmode. ü5.7 DraftBoldOff 5.8 NLQBoldOn 5.9 NLQBoldOff ÇThisshouldensurethattheprinterisinnon-boldNLQmode, aswellasturningoffbold.Allofthecommandswhichturn offastyleinNLQmodeshouldensurethettheprinterisin NLQ. ü5.A DraftItalicOn 5.B DraftItalicOff Ç ♪°ü5.C NLQItalicOnÇ (Nondaisywheel)Wediscovered,whencreatingthe configurationfilefortheEpsonLX-80,thatitcannotprint italicNLQtext.ThiscommandintheLX-80driverturnsoff NLQmode,andthenextoneturnsitbackon. ü5.D NLQItalicOff 5.E DraftLightOn 5.F DraftLightOff ♪⑨5.10 NLQLightOn Ç (Nondaisywheel)InourLX-80configurationfile,wemake "Light"textappearinanon-NLQfount. ü5.11 NLQLightOff ♪⑦5.12 DraftSuperscriptOnÇ Forcorrectjustificationoftext,superscriptandsubscript charactersshouldbethesamewidthasnormaltext.Usea halflinefeedondaisywheelprinters. ü5.13 DraftSuperscriptOff 5.14 NLQSuperscriptOn 5.15NLQSuperscriptOff 5.16 DraftSubscriptOn 5.17 DraftSubscriptOff 5.18 NLQSubscriptOn 5.19 NLQSubscriptOff 5.1ADraftUnderlineOn Ç (Non-daisywheel)Notethatunderliningonadaisywheel printerisperformedbyaseparatepassoftheline,sothat underlinedstretchedspacesworkproperly. ü5.1B DraftUnderlineOff 5.1C NLQUnderlineOn 5.1D NLQUnderlineOff ♪⑦5.1E FormfeedÇ (Optional)Ifthiscodeisdefined,itisusedtofeedthe papertothetopofthenextsheet.Ifnotdefined,linefeeds willbeused. ♪⑦ü5.1F HorizontalInitialisationÇ (Optional)Foranon-daisywheelprinter,thiscodeissent onceonlyatthestartofthedocument. Foradaisywheelprinter,thiscommandmayincludea characterwidthcommand,andanyplaceholder(seeabove)will bereplacedbythedefaultcharacterwidthfromü4.2Çabove. ü5.20 VerticalInitialisationÇ (Optional)Foranon-daisywheelprinter,thiscodeissent onceonlyatthestartofthedocument. Foradaisywheelprinter,thiscommandmayincludealinefeed distancecommand,andanyplaceholder(seeabove)willbe replacedbythedefaultlineheightfromü4.3Çabove. Youmaywanttoincludeaformfeedinthisinitialisation stringtoensurethattheprinterisatthestartofa document. ü5.21 PrinterResetÇ (Optional)Thiscommandissenttotheprinterattheendof thedocumenttoresetitforusebyotherprograms. ü6 CharacterTranslationTable Ç Thistablehasasimilarstructuretothecommandtable above,butitisusedtotranslatecharactersbefore transmission. MostoftheüfirsthalfÇoftheAtariextendedinternational charactersetcanbesentdirectlytoaprinterwithout translation.Thereneednotbeanyentryinthetablefora standardasciicharacter. Accentedcharactersandotherinternationalcharactersinthe secondhalfofthecharactersetcanbeprintedonsome printerseitherbyoverprintingorbysendingcommandstothe printertoswitchfount.Inthiscasethetableentryshould startwiththecodeofthecharactertobetranslated, followedbythedatatobesenttotheprinter. Whereacharactercannotbesatisfactorilyprinted,atable entrygivingjustthecharactercodewithoutanytranslation willcausetheprinterdrivertoskipthatcharacter. Thetablemustbeinascendingorder,andterminatedwitha zeroentry. SeethestandardEpsonconfigurationforlanguagetranslation commandstoaccesscharacters(itswitchesbacktotheUSA fountforsomestandardasciisymbols). SeethestandardQUMEconfigurationfileforaccented charactersonanEnglishdaisywheelachievedbyoverprinting. Thistablewillneedchangingfordifferentdaisywheels! Thereisnofixedsizelimitonthesizeofthetable,so adventurousinstallerscouldtryincludingcommandsto downloadcharactershapesintodotmatrixprintersforsome ofthemoreexoticcharacters.