Pitch
The monospaccdpitchesavailablewith intcmal fonts include 10, 12 and 16.66charactersper inch. However,with the frontpanel’sprogrammenu youcan selectmorethe compact6.5 and 8.1pitchesappropriatefor a small fontlike Line Printer.
Font height
The normalfont sizes in Diablomode are 8.5, 10and 12pointshigh.
Style
Toselectitalicswiththisemulation,selectthatstyleas a fontattributefrom the front panel. If you want italicsunderprogramcontrol,you can use an optionalsupplementarysymbolset cartridgecontainingitalic characters.
Stroke weight
The Star LascrPnnter 8 can create bold characters(a Diablovariationis called“shadowprint”)by printingeachcharactertwice,slightlyoffset,just like the Diablo does. To turn on bold print you send either of these two commands(the first one includesthe capitalletter“O”):
<ESC>O <ESC>W
Youcan turn off the boldprint againwith any of thesecommands:
<ESC>& <ESC>X <CR>
Typeface
The Star LaserPnntcr 8 uses Courier font as its default Diablo font. It switchesto the Line Printer font for condensedprint, to Tms Romn for proportionalspacing,andto Prestigefor
Underline
TheLaserPnntcr8 willunderline(spacesas WCI1as characters)if you send this command:
<ESC>E
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