Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: HPIID laser printer problem with quotes (`')
Message-ID: <1255@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 3 Feb 91 05:39:00 GMT
References: <2102@kluge.fiu.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <2102@kluge.fiu.edu> mackey@scs.fiu.edu writes:
|On most terminals and printers the backquote (`) looks like
|a smaller version of the backslash (\) and the frontquote
|(') looks like a smaller version of the frontslash (/).

|On an HPiiD, however, both quotes look like tiny versions
|of the frontslash (/), the only difference being that the
|backquote (`) is slightly wider on the bottom and the
|frontquote (') is slightly wider on top.

|Does anyone know of a decent way or even a hack to fix this
|problem?  I.e., how does one make the backquote into a
|mirror image of the front quote for the Courier font family
|in a fairly straightforward manner?  Is it possible to
|reprogram the printer?

|Secondly, is it possible to reconfigure the printer so that
|it also works for those filters whose source code is not
|available?

I've never had a problem with these, but if you insist (;-)
here're two approaches:
	1) you could change the encoding vector in all of
	   your fonts to remap ` & ' to the accents up near
	   octal 301 and 302 (I don't have a redbook handy,
	   so I don't know their precise names - I think
	   they're probably acute and grave).  See the Blue
	   book on how to do this.
	2) insert inbetween the filters and the printer
	   another filter that converts ` & ' that occur
	   between parenthesis into \301 & \302.  You can
	   do this easily with sed.
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