Star Micronics 8 Series manual Each emulat~onhas symbol sets, Ascii

Youprobablywon’tchangesymbolsetsveryoften,unlessyouneedspeciaI symbolsfor yourtradeor regularlywritein a languageotherthan English. Whenyoudoneedthem,though;inoneoranotheremulationmodeyourStar Laserl%intcr8 supportssymbolsets for all these countries:

U.S. (ASCII)	UnitedKingdom	France
Germany	Sweden	Finland
Italy	Denmark	Norway
Spain

Besidestheseyourprintersupportssetscontainingjust symbols,suchasthe Greekalphabet(B),logicsymbols(S), arrows(#), the registeredtrademark symbol(Q) and so on.

Each emulat~onhas symbol sets

Yourlaser printerworksby emulatingor followingcommandsdeveloped originallyfor otherprinters.One of the StarLaserPrinter8’s advantagesis thatit offersyoua choiceof severalbuilt-insymbolsetsforeachfontin each emulation.

The actualEX-800,PropnnterandDiabloprintersdon’tuse symbolsets to produceinternationalaccentedcharactersand specialsymbols.Instead,the EX-800 and Propnnter let you define which characters you want with parameter settings, and the Diablo lets you change pnntwhcels. Both approachesproducemuch the sameeffect as switchingsymbolsets, how- ever, so we~llstickto this singleconceptthroughoutthis manual.

Whenyour Star LaserPrinter8 is emulatingthe HP LaserJetH, the normal default’symbol set is the Roman-8 set. Roman-8 includes all the usual keyboardcharacters,numbersandsymbolsin ASCII,plusaccentedforeign- languagecharactersand specialsymbols(but nothingfor line drawing).

To complementthese,in the ProprinteremulationyourStarLaserPrinter8 offerstwo separateIBM symbolsets.Theseincludestandardline-drawing and mathematicalsymbolsalong with foreigncharacters.That makes the StarLaserPnntcr8 a goodmatchforhundredsof wordprocessingandother programs that expect these symbols, which most font designem omit (especiallythe IBM HappyFace).

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