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w ~;M311~NDG FEATURES WITH THE MACRO As you gain in experience with y.our printer, you will undoubtedly
develop a flair for combining its many print styles. For example, you
might want to combine expanded, pica, and letter-quality, or try
condensed and expanded print with underlining. Whatever your
preference for combined styles, this printer makes them easy to use
with the macro instruction command.
The macro instruction is named for its ability to compress a number
of separate commands into one single instruction. Here’s how it
works: first, you define the “macro” by entering the code < ESC > + ,
followed by all the control codes you wish to combine; you can use
a maximum of 16 possible control codes. Then, terminate the macro
instruction by entering the code < RS >. The macro instruction you
just programmed in will be there for your use until you turn the printer
off or enter a new macro.
Whenever you want to use the macro, you can enter the code
< ESC >? to call it up.
Table 4-9. The codes for the macro instruction.
FUNCTION ESCAPE CODE
Define Macro
Instruction <ESC> + n7 n2...<RS>
Use Macro
Instruction <ESC> ?
n INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER SETS
You might find that you’re perfectly content with the 96 standard
American characters provided in the default character set. But you’ll
be interested to know that your printer can also print the special
characters commonly used in England, Germany, France, Italy,
Sweden, Denmark and Spain!
If you do plan to use these characters regularly, you will want to
reset your DIP switches as shown in Table 4-10 below.
If you plan to use international character sets only on occasion,
however, you will probably want to access them by sending a code
through your word processor (illustrated in Table 4-11). Please refer
to Appendix E for a complete listing of the codes for each interna-
tional character.
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