Star Micronics NX-1000 manual Aedlin Nlqelite.Dat

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If you want a particular type style, print pitch, or right or left margin, you can make these settings from the control panel before you start printing. See Chapter 2.

If you print from the DOS command level very often, it will be ad- vantageous to create a printer setup file. Then instead of setting margins etc. manually each time, you can complete the setup with a single command from your computer. For example, you can create a file containing printer commands to set the right and left margins, select near letter quality, and select elite pitch. You can find the commands in Appendix B. We suggest the following:

•	Near	letter quality	< ESC >	“x”	“1”
•	Elite	pitch	< ESC >	“!”	cl>
• Left and right margins			< ESC >	yp	< 12 > ~92 >

<ESC > “!” < 1 > is a powerful command that, in addition to selecting elite pitch, cancels unwanted features such as underlining which might be left from previous commands. The angle brackets around the < 1 > indicate character code 1. which is a control code, not the printable digit “1”.

<ESC > “X” < 12 > < 92 > sets the left margin in column 12 and the right margin in column 92. This will give a 6.7-inch, 80-column printed line with a one-inch left margin. (Elite has 12 characters per inch). < 12 > is a control code; < 92 > is the character “\“, as you can verify in Appendix D.

You may want to place additional commands in this file, such as line spacing and bottom margin commands. Or you may want to create a variety of setup files with a different set of commands in each.

To avoid excess line feeds, you should place the commands on one line in the setup file. You may or may not be able to generate a setup file with word-processing software; it depends on whether your software lets you enter control codes. If your system includes the file EDLIN.COM, however, you can easily create a setup file with the DOS line editor.

An appropriate name for this setup file would be NLQELITE.DAT. To use the DOS line editor, type the command EDLIN NLQELITE.DAT, then type the underlined parts of the following display. Press RETURN at the end of each line. Don’t type the symbol “h”. This symbol means to hold the CTRL key down while pressing the next key: for example, *V means to type CTRL-V. ^C means to type CTRL-C, which indicates the end of the input.

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