Star Micronics 4111 manual Character slant command, Relative character size command

When command SB 1 is in effect, command S1cannot use negative param- etersand, ingeneral.can selectonlyapproximatevaluesofpositiveparameters. In addition, only one parameters has effect, the width for monospaced fonts and the height for proportional fonts.

Character slant command

SL tan(skuzt un~le) [;]

This command specifies the slant at which labels are drawn. The parameter is a tangent of the angle between the centerline of a character and the vertical line.

Relative character size command

SR width, height [:]

This command specifies the size of characters as a percentage of the distance between P1 and P2.

Select standard font command

Ss [;]

This command selects the font currently designated as standard.

It has the same effect as the shift-in <S1> is the string of a label command except that the shift remains i.neffect until an SA command is received.

Transparent data command

TD mode [;]

mode: clamped integer

=O:normal

=I: transparent

This command defines how control characters are treated. In the normal mode. such characters perform their normal control functions and are not printed. In the transparent mode, all control characters are printed (non- printing characters print as spaces) and do not perform their normal f-unctions. The normal mode is selected with Ofor the mode parameter, and the trans- parent mode is selected with 1.

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