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CONTROLLING FONTS
Font selection
The LaserJet II emulationlets you define and select fonts three ways: as
primary and secondary fonts, or by font identificationnumber, or by
description. W e'lllookatthefirsttwowaysnow,andexplainselectinga font
by its attributesa little furtheron.
Howeveryouchooseto refertofonts,rememberthatafontmustbeavailable
beforeyou selectit. So if youwantto selecta cartridgeor downloadedfont,
you first have to put in the cartridgeor downloadthe font.
Selecting primary or secondary fonts
Ofthethreeselectionmethods,youwillsavethemostprogrammingtimeby
shifting back and forth between primary and secondary fonts. That's
counterbalanced, t hough,by the fact that you often need more than two
fonts.
Typically, you use primary and secondaryfonts to flip back and forth
betweentwodifferentsymbolsets—forexampleIBMsymbolsets 1and2.
Youcandesignateanytwofonts,whetherinternal,cartridgeordownloaded,
as primaryand secondary.
The way you show you're talking about a primary font in an Escape
sequence is to follow the <ESC> symbol with a left parenthesis. For
example,
<ESC>
(S
10 H
means you want your primary font pitched at ten charactersto the inch.
Typinga rightparenthesisinsteadmeansyouare referringto the secondary
font:
<ESC>
)S
10 H
You definea font as primaryor secondaryas you selectit. To make a font
yourprimaryor secondaryfont,youuse font-description Escapesequences
such as thosejust above,specifyingthe attributesyou want.
If you don'texplicitlyindicatewhat attributesyou want for the primaryor
secondaryfont, the printer will use the same default font for both. This
defaultfont'sattributesincludethe Roman-8symbolset, 10-pitchspacing,
12-pointheight,uprightstyle,mediumweight,and Couriertypeface.
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