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Example: Font attributes

Let’sput the last half dozenfontaltnbutcstogetherin an example.Say we wanttoselectanicefont—a smallLinePrinter- forthefootnotesina report we’vefinished.Let’smakeitoursecondaryfont,sincethebodyofourreport is done in the primaryfont.

We’ll go with the defaults for orientationand symbol set. But let’s be specificabouttheotherattributes,andlet’srememberto putthemin priority order.

Wedecideon a monospacedof 16.66charactersperinchanda heightofjust sevenpoints(footnotesshouldlooksmallerthanour regulartext).To keep it readable,we opt for the ordinaryuprightstyleand mediumweightin the Line Printer typeface.Our sequenceof individualcommandswould look like this:

<ESC>)S OP <ESC>)S 16.66H <ESC> )S 7V <ESC>)S OS <ESC>)S OB <ESC>)S OT

Since these font attributesall start with the same )s command-category prefix,let’s put them all togetherin onc command:

<ESC>)S OP 16.66h 7V@ ObOT

The BASICstatcmentwc couldsendto selectour desiredfont wouldlook like this;

100 LPRINTCHR$(27);“)sOp16. 66h7vOsObOT”

And assuming we have such a font in our printer, we‘d get a font that looks like this sentence for our footnotes.

Underliningis printingfeature,not a font attribute.

You can underlinein two ways: as a print feature,or with the – underline character.If you backspaceand use the underlinecharacter,however,you often find the underlinedoesn’tcomeout the samelengthas your text.

The underlinecommand works better. When you turn on the underline

Star Micronics 8 Series manual Underline

Models: 8 Series

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