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If you want aparticular typestyle, print pitch, or right or left margin,
youcan make these settingsfrom thecontrol panel before you start printing.
SeeChapter 2.
If you print from the DOS command levelvery often, it will be ad-
vantageous to create aprinter setup file. Then instead of setting margins
etc.manually each time, you can complete the setup with asinglecommand
from your computer. For example,you can create afile containing printer
commands to set the right and left margins, selectnear letter quality, and
selectelite pitch. You can find the commands in Appendix B. We suggest
the following:
●Near letter quality <ESC>“x” “1”
.Elitepitch <ESC >“!” <1>
●Left and right margins <ESC>“X” <12> <92>
<ESC>“!” <1> is apowerfulcommand that, in addition to selecting
elite pitch, cancelsunwanted features such as underlining which might be
leftfrom previous commands.The angle bracketsaround the <1> indicate
character code 1,which is acontrol code, not the printable digit “l”.
<ESC>“X” <12> <92> setsthe left margin in column 12 and the
rightmargin in column 92. This will givea6.7-inch, 80-columnprinted line
with aone-inchleft 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
spacingand bottom margin commands. Oryou may want to create avariety
of setup fileswith adifferent set of commands in each.
To avoid excesslinefeeds, you should place the commands on one line
in the setup file.You may or may not be able to generate asetup file with
word-processingsoftware;itdepends onwhether yoursoftware letsyouenter
control codes.If your system includesthe file EDLIN.COM, however,you
can easilycreate asetup file with the DOS lineeditor.
An appropriate name for this setup filewould be NLQELITE.DAT.
To usethe DOS line editor, type the command EDLIN NLQELITE.DAT,
then type the underlined parts of the followingdisplay. Press RETURN
at the end of each line.Don’t type the symbol “A”. 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 indicatesthe
end of the input.
A>EDLIN NLQELITE .DAT
New file