Example: Font attributes
Let’s put the last half dozen font attributes together in an example. Say we want to select a nice font — a small Line Printer — for the footnotes in a report we’ve finished. Let’s make it our secondary font, since’the body of our report is done in the primary font.
We’ll go with the defaults for orientation and symbol set. But let’s be specific about the other attributes, and let’s remember to put them in priority order.
We decide on a monospaced of 16.66characters per inch and a height of just seven points (footnotes should look smaller than our regular text). To keep it readable, we opt for the ordinary upright style and medium weight in the Line Printer typeface. Our sequence of individual commands would look like this:
<ESC> )S OP <ESC> )S 16.66H <ESC> )S 8.5V <ESC> )S OS <ESC> )S OB <ESC> )S OT
Since these font attributes all start with the same )s
<ESC> )S op 16.66h 8.5v os ObOT
The BASIC statement we could send to select our desired font would look like this:
100 LPRINT CHR$ (27);“)sopl 6. 66h8 .5vOsObOT”
And assuning we have such a font in our printer, we’d get a font that looks 1i ke this sentence for our footnotes.
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