Star Micronics 8 Series manual Font selection, Selecting primary or secondary fonts

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CONTROLLING FONTS

Font selection

The LaserJet II emulationlets you define and select fonts three ways: as primary and secondary fonts, or by font identificationnumber, or by description.We’lllookatthefirsttwowaysnow,andexplainselectinga font by its attributesa little furtheron.

Howeveryouchooseto refertofonts,rememberthatafontmustbeavailable beforeyou selectit. So if youwantto selecta cartridgeor downloadedfont, you first have to put in the cartridgeor downloadthe font.

Selecting primary or secondary fonts

Ofthethreeselectionmethods,youwillsavethemostprogrammingtimeby shifting back and forth between primary and secondary fonts. That’s counterbalanced,though,by the fact that you often need more than two fonts.

Typically, you use primary and secondaryfonts to flip back and forth betweentwodifferentsymbolsets—forexampleIBMsymbolsets 1and2. Youcandesignateanytwofonts,whetherinternal,cartridgeordownloaded, as primaryand secondary.

The way you show you’re talking about a primary font in an Escape sequence is to follow the <ESC> symbol with a left parenthesis. For example,

<ESC> (S 10 H

means you want your primary font pitched at ten charactersto the inch. Typinga rightparenthesisinsteadmeansyouare referringto the secondary font:

<ESC>)S 10 H

You definea font as primaryor secondaryas you selectit. To make a font yourprimaryor secondaryfont,youuse font-descriptionEscapesequences such as thosejust above,specifyingthe attributesyou want.

If you don’texplicitlyindicatewhat attributesyou want for the primaryor secondaryfont, the printer will use the same default font for both. This defaultfont’sattributesincludethe Roman-8symbolset, 10-pitchspacing, 12-pointheight,uprightstyle,mediumweight,and Couriertypeface.

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