Star Micronics 8 Series manual Symbolset

defaultsettings.

When you wantto selectthe oppositeorientation,send this command:

<ESC>&tn O

in which for n you put Oto get portraitorientation,

or 1 to get landscapeorientation.

(Notice:the /character after the &is a lowercaseL.)

Symbol sets: a review

Eachfontcanhavemanysymbolsets,eachbeinga subsetof allthepossible characters of the font. These subgroups include different symbols for different nations or for lawyers or artists or mathematicians.Any two symbol sets, moreover, may store the same symbol at a different font positionin the printer’smcmory.

ThedefaultLaserJetII emulationsymbolset isRoman-8,whichincludesall ASCIIcharactersplusdozensof accentedletters.Butyoucan useanyof the sets shown below. Technically you can pair any symbol set with any internal,cartridgeor downloadedfont;howeveritdocsn’tmakemuchsense to print text with a math or line-drawingsymbolset.

LaserJetH modeprovidestwo differentsymbolset commands.You put a code into one commandto selecta particularsymbolset for yourprimary or secondaryfont.YouU.SCtheothercommandto selectthecurrentordefault symbolset for yourprimaryor secondaryfont.

Selecting a symbol set

Thisfirstsymbolsetcommandletsyouselecta particularsymbolset forthe current font. To select a symbol set for your primary font, send this command:

<ESC>( n

For n enterone of the followingsymbolcodes.The first charactermustbe a digit and the secondan uppercaseletter.

CODE n	SYMBOLSET
OA	Math-7symbols
OB	Line Drawcharacters
OD	1S0 60: Norwegian
OE	RomanExtension
OF	1S0 25: French
OG	HP German

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