Star Micronics 8 Series Applications Manual page 50

Youprobablywon'tchangesymbolsetsveryoften,unlessyouneedspeciaI
symbolsfor yourtradeor regularlywritein a languageotherthan English.
Whenyoudoneedthem,though;inoneoranotheremulationmodeyourStar
Laserl%intcr 8 supportssymbolsets for all these countries:
U.S. (ASCII) UnitedKingdom
France
Germany Sweden
Finland
Italy Denmark
Norway
Spain
Besidestheseyourprintersupportssetscontaining just symbols,suchasthe
Greekalphabet(B),logicsymbols(S), arrows(#), the registeredtrademark
symbol(Q) and so on.
Each emulat~onhas symbol sets
Yourlaser printerworksby emulatingor followingcommandsdeveloped
originallyfor otherprinters.One of the StarLaserPrinter8's advantagesis
thatit offersyoua choiceof severalbuilt-insymbolsetsforeachfontin each
emulation.
The actualEX-800,PropnnterandDiabloprintersdon'tuse symbolsets to
produceinternational a ccentedcharactersand specialsymbols.Instead,the
EX-800 and Propnnter let you define which characters you want with
parameter settings, and the Diablo lets you change pnntwhcels. Both
approachesproducemuch the sameeffect as switchingsymbolsets, how-
ever, so we~llstickto this singleconceptthroughoutthis manual.
Whenyour Star LaserPrinter8 is emulatingthe HP LaserJetH, the normal
default'symbol set is the Roman-8 set. Roman-8 includes all the usual
keyboardcharacters, n umbersandsymbolsin ASCII,plusaccentedforeign-
languagecharactersand specialsymbols(but nothingfor line drawing).
To complementthese,in the ProprinteremulationyourStarLaserPrinter8
offerstwo separateIBM symbolsets.Theseincludestandardline-drawing
and mathematicalsymbolsalong with foreigncharacters.That makes the
StarLaserPnntcr8 a goodmatchforhundredsof wordprocessingandother
programs that expect these symbols, which most font designem omit
(especiallythe IBM HappyFace).
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