Chapter 7 Emulation
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subscripts, underlining, backspace, vertical and horizontal tabulation, line spacing, and
paper length.
The font mode set for the IBM Proprinter X24E emulation is 0 (the printing system
adjusts nothing automatically for font attributes) unless you change it by the FTMD
command. If you do not need exact character spacing, you can improve the appearance
of some fonts by changing the font mode to 13.
!R! FTMD 13; EXIT;
It should be noted that for FTMD 13; the default Draft Sans-serif font will be printed in
12 cpi, and the Courier Proportional font will be printed in fixed pitch.
To use some of the page printing system’s other fonts, you can select them with font
selection commands, but a more convenient method is available. You can substitute other
fonts for the four embedded fonts with SETF (SET alternate Font) commands. This
works because the printing system obtains these fonts from the following default values
of the SETF command:
A substitute font can be any resident font if you use the SFNT command to assign the
font number. (See the SFNT command page in PRESCRIBE Commands Command
Reference.)
To assign a font number to resident fonts for substituting the emulated fonts in IBM Pro-
printer X24E emulation, all the option parameters (including symbol-set, compression,
and angle) for the SFNT command must be specified.
Landscape orientation is another feature the printing system can offer that the IBM
printer cannot. If you command !R! SPO L; EXIT; the printing system rotates the current
font and prints text in landscape orientation.
The printing system supports the IBM printer’s bit-image graphics in portrait orientation,
so graphics software using the IBM Proprinter X24E emulation will print charts, graphs,
and pictures without the need for PRESCRIBE commands. The print model and clipping
features of the PRESCRIBE path mode graphics will be ignored with the IBM bit-image
graphics, however.
If you attempt to print beyond the right margin, the characters will wrap around and print
on the next line.
IBM Proprinter X24E Control Codes
This section provides IBM Proprinter X24E control codes which is supported by the
printing system under X24E Proprinter emulation.
Table 7.5. IBM Proprinter Fonts
Font name Character spacing ALTF No.
Draft Sans-serif 10 cpi, 12 cpi 0
Courier 10 cpi 1
Prestige Elite 12 cpi 2
Draft Sans-serif Condensed (15 cpi) 3
Courier Prop. Proportional 4
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