HP L5 manual Examples

The new algorithm for deciding whether or not to counter-rotate characters (when using the Character Text Path Direction command’s vertical-rotated printing mode) is as follows:

if (the current font contains a VE segment)

{

if(the character code* is NOT contained in a VE range)

rotate else

don’t rotate

}

else

use the old logic

*The original character code, even if a galley character were substituted at some point.

Segment ID

Format/NumRanges

Range1FirstCode

Range1LastCode

Range2FirstCode

Range2LastCode

Examples:

Japanese ShiftJIS

VE

0 1

0x0000

0x00FF

Japanese Unicode

VE

0 2

0x0000	half-width latin
0x007F	characters
0xFF61	half-width
0xFF9F	katakana

2-102 Printer-Specific Differences