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From: johnh@wheaton (John Doc Hayward)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Help needed with applewriter underline command
Message-ID: <165@wheaton>
Date: Thu, 26-Jun-86 13:30:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: wheaton.165
Posted: Thu Jun 26 13:30:47 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jun-86 04:01:24 EDT
Organization: Wheaton College,  Wheaton IL
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Keywords: Help, Apple II, Applewriter

I am not an apple II owner but am trying to help a friend with his applewriter
program.  In the applewriter manual there is an indication of how to set up
the "special" file for various printer related commands (underline, boldface,
pitch changes).  We have changed these for his printer and we can get these
functions by a control g and the letter (_ for start underline - for stop...).
There is also an underline token in the print menu which by default is "\".
But when this is used applewriter does not send the sequence of characters
which we have defined for underline.  Instead it appears to send an underscore
followed by an attempted backspace and then the character.  Somewhere between
the applewriter program and the print head the backspace is removed so the
output apears to be underscore followed by letter.  In addition there apears to
be no command to start and stop boldface or print pitch changes.

My questions are as follows:
1) Is there any way to get the underline token to send a sequence we define?
2) What is the most likely reason the backspace is being ignored or stripped?
Is this an artifact of applewriter?, the interface? or the printer itself?
3) Is there any way to specify boldface, pitch changes, super and subscripts in
a manner which is printer independent so that a change to the special file is 
all that is needed to set up a document for another printer?

Please respond via e-mail.  Thanks in advance!


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