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To select style for the secondary font,just reverse the parenthesis and use the
same n numbers:
<ESC>
)S n
S
Remember that style is a relatively low-priority attribute. If a particular font
satisfies all higher priority attributes but doesn't come in the style you want,
you'll get that font without your style.
Stroke weight
The weight of a font defines how lightly or boldly it prints.
You can be flexible about stroke weight. The following command gives you
a range of 15degrees of boldness, though not many fonts exploit that range.
Send this command to select a primary font with your desired stroke weight:
<ESC>
(S n
B
in which you replace n with a number from –7 (meaning light) to +7 (very
bold). You need the negative sign to get the lighter weights. A weight of O
(zero) produces medium print.
To select the stroke weight for the secondary font, use the same numbers with
this command:
<ESC>
)S n
B
An incidental note: You will likely use optional fonts to give you boldface,
so probably don't need to know this. But it's possible to print bold without
even having a bold font in the printer. You just print the text you want in bold
two times, with the overprint offset by 4 decipoints.
So you can use the command <ESC> &a n H to back up, you just need to
know the width in decipoints of what you want to overprint. In a monospaced-
pitch font like Courier that's easy: just keep track of how many characters
you print. In a proportional font you'd keep track of the decipoints by using
a character-width table. After backing up 4 decipoints less than the total text
width you just print your text again.
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