Star Micronics 8 Series Applications Manual page 81

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defaultsettings.
When you wantto selectthe oppositeorientation,send this command:
<ESC>&tn O
in which for n you put Oto get portraitorientation,
or 1 to get landscapeorientation.
(Notice:the /character after the &is a lowercaseL.)
Symbol sets: a review
Eachfontcanhavemanysymbolsets,eachbeinga subsetof allthepossible
characters of the font. These subgroups include different symbols for
different nations or for lawyers or artists or mathematicians.Any two
symbol sets, moreover, may store the same symbol at a different font
positionin the printer'smcmory.
ThedefaultLaserJetII emulationsymbolset isRoman-8,whichincludesall
ASCIIcharactersplusdozensof accentedletters.Butyoucan useanyof the
sets shown below. Technically you can pair any symbol set with any
internal,cartridgeor downloadedfont;howeveritdocsn'tmakemuchsense
to print text with a math or line-drawingsymbolset.
LaserJetH modeprovidestwo differentsymbolset commands.You put a
code into one commandto selecta particularsymbolset for yourprimary
or secondaryfont.YouU.SC theothercommandto selectthecurrentordefault
symbolset for yourprimaryor secondaryfont.
Selecting a symbol set
Thisfirstsymbolsetcommandletsyouselecta particularsymbolset forthe
current font. To select a symbol set for your primary font, send this
command:
<ESC>( n
For n enterone of the followingsymbolcodes.The first charactermustbe
a digit and the secondan uppercaseletter.
CODEn
SYMBOLSET
OA
Math-7symbols
OB
Line Drawcharacters
OD
1S0 60: Norwegian
OE
RomanExtension
OF
1S0 25: French
OG
HP German
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