Youprobablywon’tchangesymbolsetsveryoften,unlessyouneedspecial
symbolsforyourtrade orregularlywrite inalanguageotherthan English.
Whenyoudoneedthem,though,inoneoranotheremulationmodeyourStar
LaserPrinter4supportssymbolsetsfor allthesecountries:
U.S.(ASCII) United Kingdom France
Germany Sweden Finland
Italy Denmark Norway
Spain
Besidestheseyourprintersupportssetscontainingjustsymbols,suchasthe
Greekalphabet(13),logicsymbols(S),arrows (t), theqjistered trademark
symbol(@)andso on.
3.3.2Each emulationhas symbolsets
Yourlaserprinter worksby emulatingor followingcommandsdeveloped
originallyforotherprinters.One ofthe StarLaserPrinter8’sadvantagesis
thatitoffefi youachoiceofseveralbuilt-insymbolsetsforeachfontineach
emulation.
TheactualFX-850,printerdoesnotusesymbolsetstoproduceinternational
accentedcharactemandspecialsymbols.Instead,theFX-8501etsyoudefine
whichcharactersyouwant withparametersettings.
WhenyourStarLaserPnnter4 isemulatingtheHPLaserJetIIP, thenormal
defaultsymbol set is the Roman-8set. Roman-8 includesall the usual
keyboardcharacters,numbersandsymbolsinASCII,plusaccentedfo~ign-
languageCharactersand specialsymbols(butnothingfor linedrawing).
TheEpsonFX-850emulationismllyvematile. It letsyouhavebothofthose
IBMsymbolsetsplusEpson’sownstandardsymbolset.ThisEpsonsymbol
setis unusual:itcontainsbothuprightand italiccharactersinthe sameset.
You may also choosefrom symbol sets for all the countriesmentioned
above,plusasecondunique setfor eachof Denmarkand Spain.
3.3.3Default fontattributes
Whenyoupoweronyourprinterandchoosean emulation,theinternalfonts
startoffwithdefaultattributeswhichyoucanchangeasneeded.Thedefault
symbolsetsdepend on theemulation:in LaserJetIIP mode thedefault is
Roman-8,andin EpsonEX-800 modeit’sEpsonStd USA.
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