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.title 1 EPSON.GLS\\%
/_EPSON Glossary users manual_
%For those of you who use Epson FX printers
extensively, you may wish to have some means of making
printouts look more professional, a little more flashy,
maybe even striking. Just plain old print fonts don't do
much for me, but they do transmit information. There is a
SuperVUE glossary file that you can use to dress up your
files and make them appear a little bit better. (Note:
this glossary will not make you a better writer or improve
your dry old report into a Pulitzer Prize winner, it will
only make them _look_ better.) This glossary allows you to
imbed within your document control characters to change the
font to normal, emphasized, double strike, double width,
compressed, headline, italics, subscript and superscript,
and a compressed line size. You may find it handy.
%To begin, you must load the glossary into your memory
while editing a file. This is done from the command mode:
%>GLOSS EPSON <CR>
(as always, upper or lower case are immaterial. Spelling
is material, however. Any time you are required to type
something, the proper format will be underscored.
Depressing the RETURN key is signified with <CR>. Anytime
you are to depress the Control key along with another key,
the format given is ^G. This means "hold the control key
down while pressing the letter G key down.")
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%After pressing the return key, the screen will display
the following menu:
%G EPSON.GLS Print mode Options
%A Regular line spacing (6 lines / inch)
%B Bold headline (one line only)
%C Compressed mode
%D Double strike
%E Emphasized text
%F Narrow line spacing (10 lines / inch)
%I Italics on
%L Elite mode
%M Cancel Elite mode
%N Normal text
%O Italics off
%P Super Script a line
%S Sub Script a line
%W Double width mode on (more than one line)
%X Double width mode off
If you ever want to see the options from where ever you are
in your document (you don't have to be in the command
mode), simply press _^GG_ to have the menu displayed. It
will appear right in the middle of your text, but don't
panic, it is only on your screen. If you were very
observant, when you pressed ^G, a little G character
appeared in the upper right hand corner of your screen.
This is to tell you that the next character you press will
be processed by the Glossary. If it finds a match from the
list above, it will do whatever the glossary program says
to do. If no match is found, it then pretends nothing
happened and continues in the editing mode.
%The EPSON glossary inserts special text into your
document in the form of dot commands. In reality, you
could do everything that this glossary does by hand after
reading this, but I have a poor memory and am even a poorer
typist. It is easier for me to let a program insert
special codes into the document and know that it is done
right each time. The remainder of this document will
discuss what happens when you hit ^G followed by one of the
listed letters.
%_YOU MUST BE IN THE EDIT MODE (i.e., have the text of
your report on the screen) TO USE THESE COMMANDS PROPERLY.
@. General font control modes
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%_^GN_ Normal text
,Glossary response: .control ^R^[H^[F
.control ^R^[H^[F
,This font is the normal text that is
,used for most draft copies turned
,out. It prints at 10 characters per
,inch (CPI), high printing speed, and
,good readability.
%_^GC_ Compressed mode
,Glossary response: .control ^R^[H^[F^O
.control ^R^[H^[F^O
.margin 26
,This is the same as above but prints at
,17 CPI. This cannot be mixed with
,emphasized or doublestrike modes can
,be mixed with italics, double width,
,underline, sub- and superscript.
.control ^R^[H^[F
.margin 10
,You must change the .MARGIN command by a
,factor of 1.7 to have this mode to print
,out properly. For example, the margin
,for this document was set at 8 for
,normal text. To have the compressed
,mode print out in the same margins the
,.MARGIN 14 command was given (8 x 1.7 =
,14 approximately). It is very useful for
,printing out wide tables or to serve as
,"fine print" on a contract.
%_^GL_ Elite mode
,Glossary response: .control ^R^[M
.control ^R^[M
,This print mode is really nice for those
,tables that are just slightly larger
,than regular pica margins will allow.
,Elite size characters are placed at 12
,per inch (as opposed to 10), thus you
,can fit a table that is 72 characters
,wide in a 60 character pica space.
,Emphasized and condensed modes cannot be
,mixed with elite. Also, to get any of
,the other print modes to work properly,
,you must CANCEL the elite mode with _^GM_
,Glossary response: .control ^[P
.control ^[P
,This sets the print back to the most
,previous setting, in this case, Normal.
%_^GE_ Emphasized text
,Glossary response: .control ^R^[H^[F^[E
.control ^R^[H^[F^[E
,Emphasized font is darker and still
,prints with fair rapidity. It cannot be
,used with compressed mode. This type is
,acceptable to the Graduate College as
,final quality type. You can also use
,this to emphasize a section of your
,report or for section titles by going
,from Emphasized to normal and back.
.control ^R^[H^[F
%_^GD_ Double strike
,Glossary response: .control ^R^[H^[F^[G
.control ^R^[H^[F^[G
,In double strike, the print head passes
,over each line twice, slightly offset by
,one dot. This can be used in
,conjunction with Emphasized text to make
,very dark print. Printing speed is
,slow, however. This, too, is accepted
,by the Graduate College as final quality
,type.
.control ^R^[H^[F
%_^GW_ Double width mode (more than one line)
,Glossary response: .control ^[W1
.control ^[W1
.margin 5
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!This font is precisely the
!opposite of compressed mode.
!If you are presently printing
!using 10 CPI, double width
!mode will print in 5 CPI. It
!will be in effect until you
!turn it off with
!_^GX_ (Glossary response:
!.control ^[W0)
.margin 7
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.control ^R^[H^[F^O
,When used in conjunction with compressed
,mode, the effect is kind of nice. Not
,awesome, but nice.
.control ^[W0
.control ^R^[H^[F
.margin 10
,Once again, you must modify the ruler
,and the .MARGIN command to make sure
,that your text will fit on the page when
,it is printed.
%_^GI_ Italics on
,Glossary response: .control ^[4
.control ^[4
.control ^R^[H^[F^[E
,Italics are nice and can be used in
,conjunction with any of the above print
,modes. This is being printed as a
,combination of Emphasized and Italics.
,To stop this mode, you must use the _^GO_
,(Glossary response: .control ^[5)
.control ^[5
,to get back to the previously assigned
,font.
.control ^R^[H^[F
@. Special effects
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%_^GB_ Bold headline (one line only)
,Glossary response: .control ^R^[G^[E^N
,The bold headline is a one line at a
,time mode that is a combination of
,double width, double strike, and
,emphasized mode, all at once. Once
,again, reduce the left hand margin and
,be careful of the right hand margin
,because all characters (even spaces) are
,double width. It can be useful for
,attention grabbing, such as
.control ^R^[G^[E^N
%PAY YOUR BILLS!
.control ^R^[H^[F
,Be sure to re-assign your preferred
,printing font immediately after using
,this mode. The printer will stay in
,double strike, emphasized mode after
,this line is printed but will shift out
,of double width.
%_^GP_ Super Script a line
,Glossary response: .control ^[S0
?.nofeed
?.control ^[T
,This one is different from all the rest
,and takes a little more explaining.
,There are four lines of codes generated:
,the .CONTROL line, a .NOFEED line, a
,blank line, and then another .CONTROL
,line. Perhaps an example would work
,best.
,Say, for example, you had the following
,formula that you wanted to express using
,a superscript:
,My original hypothesis (E = mc3) was
,wrong.
,To make the 3 an exponent, you must have
,the 3 on a separate line, like this:
J3
,My original hypothesis (E = mc ) was
,wrong.
,Now with the cursor on the same line as
,the 3, press _^GP_ which gives the
,following lines:
,.control ^[S0
,.nofeed
J3
,.control ^[T
,My original hypothesis (E = mc ) was
,wrong.
,The printer is shifted into superscript
,mode, no line feed will be sent after
,printing the 3, the superscript mode is
,turned off, and then the rest of the
,line is printed around the 3 yielding:
.control ^[S0
.nofeed
J3
.control ^[T
,My original hypothesis (E = mc ) was
,wrong.
,Confused? Trust me, it works.
%_^GS_ Sub Script a line
,Glossary response: .control ^[S1
?.nofeed
?.control ^[T
,This is exactly the same as
,superscripting but the results are a
.control ^[S1
.nofeed
>2
.control ^[T
,subscript, as in H O.
,Just remember, have the cursor on the
,line that you wish to have printed as
,either sub- or superscript and then hit
,the ^G option for either one of these
,switches. Whether the artical is to be
,either sub- or superscripted, it should
,be ABOVE the main line of text, just as
,in the superscripting examples.
%_^GA_ Normal line spacing
,Glossary response: .control ^[2
,Normally, you will want to have your
,text printed using the normal
,linespacing (the distance between lines
,vertically on the page). If there has
,been some mad programmer on the system,
,one of those programs may have altered
,the line spacing and you may have to set
,it back to normal. This glossary will
.control ^[S0
.nofeed
;44
.control ^[T
.control ^[S1
.nofeed
>100
.control ^[T
,not be used 99 / % of the time, but
,it is included because of the next
,command.
%_^GF_ Narrow line spacing (10 lines / inch)
,Glossary response: .control ^[1
,Occasionally, you may wish to draw a
,picture, or a map, or some such object
,that would look better if the space
,between the lines was not there. This
,command will perform that function.
,For example, say you wanted to have the
,following diagram in your text:
/0123456789
,1 |..........|
,2 | | A 10 X 10
,3 | |
,4 | |
,5 | | Matrix with a point at
,6 | |
,7 | |
,8 | x | coordinates 8,5.
,9 | |
+10 |..........|
,Doesn't look very square, does it? By
,changing the line spacing using _^GF_, it
,now looks like this:
.control ^[1
/0123456789
,1 |..........|
,2 | | A 10 X 10
,3 | |
,4 | |
,5 | | Matrix with a point at
,6 | |
,7 | |
,8 | x | coordinates 8,5.
,9 | |
+10 |..........|
.control ^[2
,You just must be sure to set the line
,spacing back to normal after using this
,option using _^GA_.
,(WARNING: Although SuperVUE is a pretty
,smart program, it is not smart enough to
,know that you have changed the line
,spacing in your output file from 66
,lines per page to 110 lines. Therefore,
,a page break will be issued several
,lines early, depending upon how many
,lines were included in the narrow line
,spacing mode. If you have a large
,diagram, you may need to alter the
,length of the document for that page
,only using the .LENGTH or .STRETCH
,commands. See the SuperVUE manual for
,an explanation of those commands.
.control ^R^[H^[F^[E
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%Now that you have all of those handy control codes
imbedded in your document, you are ready to print, right?
.control ^R^[G^[E^N
'WRONG!!!
.control ^R^[H^[F^[E
%Just one more important matter: the last font control
in your document should be a _^GN_ to set the printer back to
normal print. This will relieve many printer problems with
people printing something on a font that they did not
chose. Also, the safe method of being sure that your
document is printed correctly is to set the print font at
the very beginning, assume nothing good is out there.
.control ^R^[H^[F
