Xerox 4213 manual About character formatting, Bold Start/Bold Stop, Italics

XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE

About character formatting

The character formatting commands provide some character control without a change of fonts. You can do the following:

·Bold (although a bold font may be preferable)

·Underline

·Overstrike with any printable character

·Create subscripts or superscripts.

Note: These commands increase page complexity and can slow the performance of the printer.

Italics

There is no command for italicising characters. You must select an italic font with the Font ID Assignment and Font Change commands, see ªFonts on the 4213 printerª).

Bold Start/Bold Stop

Purpose Creates boldface text without the use of a bold font.

Syntax

Syntax

Eb

Ep

bInstruction to start bold.

pInstruction to stop bold.

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