Star Micronics 8 Series Applications Manual page 79

Afteryourprimaryfontis selected,youcanchooseit forprintingby sending
this Shift In controlcode:
<S1>
All tic text you send after that commandwill print in the primaryfont.
Yourlaser printershiftsto the secondaryfontwhenyou sendthisShiftOut
code:
<so>
Assigning font ID numbers
The secondwayto dctineandselectfontsis by usingfontID numbers.You
maypreferthismclhodif youfrequentlyusemanyfonts.Whilenot as short
as <S1>and<SO>,it'squickerthandescribingfontattnbutcsoverandover
again.
To give an ID numberto an internalor cartridgefont, you first makeit the
primary font.That is, you send a left-parenthesisEscapesequence(a font
attributecommandas describedbelow)andthe ShiftIn controlcode.Then,
to assignan ID numberto the font, you send this command:
<ESC>*c n D
For n you can enter any numberbetween O and 32767 as the font's ID
number.(Notthatyoucanhavemorethan64fontsintheprinteratonce,even
with the optionalmemory board. A printer would need an elephantine
memoiy to hold 32767fonts!)
Selecting downloaded fonts
Theeasiestwayto selectamongdownloadedfontsistousefontIDnumbers.
Whenyou downloada fontyou makethe AssignFont ID commandabove
thefirstcommandin yoursequence(see"Howto downloadyourownfonts"
later in this chapter).Afteryou'veassignedan IDnumberto a downloaded
font, you can select it as your primary font with this Select Font ID
command:
<ESC>( n X
in which n is yourdesiredfont'sID number.
If youuse manyfonts you'lluse that commandto selectamongthem.But
what if you prefer to just use <S1>or <SO> to shift betweenprimaryand
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