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CHAPTER 2 "PCL" - 3
4.2.9. Units.............................................................................................................................................25
4.2.10. Unit of measure............................................................................................................................ 25
4.2.11. Setting the left and right margins ...................................................................................................25
4.2.12. Resetting the horizontal margins.................................................................................................... 26
4.2.13. Setting the top margin.................................................................................................................. 26
4.2.14. Setting the vertical motion index (VMI)........................................................................................... 27
4.2.15. Setting the horizontal motion index (HMI) .......................................................................................27
4.2.16. Setting line spacing...................................................................................................................... 28
4.2.17. Text length.................................................................................................................................. 28
4.2.18. Page length................................................................................................................................. 29
4.2.19. Perforation skip............................................................................................................................ 29
4.2.20. Positioning the cursor................................................................................................................... 30
4.2.21. Vertical positioning....................................................................................................................... 30
4.2.22. Horizontal position........................................................................................................................31
4.2.23. Positioning the cursor using control codes...................................................................................... 32
4.2.24. Using the cursor position stack..................................................................................................... 32
4.2.25. Half line feed................................................................................................................................ 33
4.2.26. Logical page orientation................................................................................................................ 33
4.2.27. Text direction............................................................................................................................... 33
5. USING FONTS.....................................................................................................................................35
5.1. Introduction.......................................................................................................................................35
5.1.1. Font types..................................................................................................................................... 35
5.1.2. Bitmap fonts.................................................................................................................................. 35
5.1.3. Scalable fonts................................................................................................................................35
5.1.4. Bound fonts................................................................................................................................... 36
5.1.5. Unbound fonts............................................................................................................................... 36
5.1.6. Font sources................................................................................................................................. 36
5.1.7. Internal fonts..................................................................................................................................36
5.1.8. Card/cartridge fonts........................................................................................................................ 36
5.1.9. Downloadable fonts........................................................................................................................ 38
5.1.10. Primary and secondary fonts......................................................................................................... 38
5.1.11. Specifying the primary font............................................................................................................ 38
5.1.12. Specifying the secondary font........................................................................................................ 38
5.1.13. Selecting the default fonts............................................................................................................. 38
5.1.14. Switching between the primary and secondary fonts........................................................................ 38
5.1.15. Criteria for font selection............................................................................................................... 38
5.1.16. Symbol set.................................................................................................................................. 40
5.1.17. Symbol collections....................................................................................................................... 40
5.1.18. Type of character spacing............................................................................................................. 40
5.1.19. Pitch...........................................................................................................................................40
5.1.20. Height......................................................................................................................................... 40
5.1.21. Style........................................................................................................................................... 40
5.1.22. Stroke weight............................................................................................................................... 40
5.1.23. Typeface..................................................................................................................................... 40
5.2. Font Selection Commands.............................................................................................................. 41
5.2.1. User-defined symbol sets............................................................................................................... 41
5.2.2. Symbol set ID code command........................................................................................................ 41
5.2.3. Define symbol set.......................................................................................................................... 41
5.2.4. Symbol set control command.......................................................................................................... 43
5.2.5. Selecting the symbol set................................................................................................................ 43
5.2.6. Selecting the type of character spacing............................................................................................45
5.2.7. Selecting the pitch......................................................................................................................... 45
5.2.8. Selecting the height .......................................................................................................................46