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Chapter 3— Text
Format:
Example Input:
Example Output:
Text Concatenation Commands
Purpose: Text concatenation allows you to assign different character styles to strings,
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{command} {fg fn fs} [fn fs] ...
where:
{command}: FG
{fg}:
Font group number. Up to 10 font groups can be specified.
Valid font groups range from 0 to 9.
{fn}:
Name or number of the font. For help, see "Resident Font
Samples" earlier in this chapter.
{fs}:
Size identifier for the font. For help, see "Resident Font
Samples" earlier in this chapter.
Note: Up to ten font number/font size pairs can be assigned to a font
group.
In the example, the descriptions are printed with the largest font in the
specified font group that is capable of fitting the requested text in a
250-dot label field.
Input (FG.LBL):
! 0 200 200 250 1
; Specify fonts 0-0, 7-0, 5-0, 4-0 as members
; of font group 3.
FG 3 0 0 7 0 5 0 4 0
VT FG 3 10 250 Ketchup
VT FG 3 70 250 Fancy Ketchup
VT FG 3 120 250 Extra Fancy Ketchup
VT FG 3 180 250 Large Size Extra Fancy Ketchup
FORM
PRINT
printing them with uniform spacing on the same text line. You can use this
command in combination with scalable fonts. For information on scalable
fonts, see "Scalable Concatenation Commands" in Chapter 4.
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