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From: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: Printer troubles
Message-ID: <2378@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 10:59:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2378
Posted: Tue Sep 22 10:59:03 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Sep-87 05:45:34 EDT
References: <7200009@uiucdcsm> <4580@videovax.Tek.COM> <353@su-russell.ARPA>
Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <353@su-russell.ARPA> kasper@su-russell.UUCP (Kasper Osterbye) writes:
>In article <4580@videovax.Tek.COM> stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.) writes:
>>In article <7200009@uiucdcsm>, Mike Schwager( schwager@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu)
>>writes:
>>
>>> Here's an odd little problem I'm having:
>>> I can't seem to get the ASCII "escape" character to my printer.
>>>[]
>
>I had the same problem as Mike. And a huried to my amiga when
>I came home after reading Steve's note. And it sure worked, I
>was able to get italics and proportional spacing and god knows
>what. BUT I was not able to get by danish or any other ALT-selected
>charaters through anymore.
>[]


1. All printer commands such as Italics, Bold, etc. should be sent
   to the printer device as standard ISO sequences which will be
   translated by the installed printer driver to the correct
   printer-specific sequence for the printer being used. (As long
   as that printer and driver support what you asked for).  The ISO
   printer sequences are listed in the Enhancer, A500, and A2000
   manuals.

   AmigaBasic 1.1 LPRINT used to eat initial escape characters.  The
   workaround was to instead OPEN "PRT:" FOR OUTPUT AS #n, then
   PRINT#n "whatever".  I just checked 1.2 AmigaBasic's LPRINT and 
   it works properly, and does not eat initial escape sequences.

2. Under 1.2, the correct way to generate foreign accented characters
   is through the use of DeadKeys.  The 1.2 Enhancer manual shows
   the DeadKeys defined on the US and international A1000 keyboards.
   In the manual diagrams, the DeadKeys are shaded gray and each have
   an accent key shown on their keycap.  To type any valid accented
   letter which is part of the international ASCII set, you press ALT
   AND the shaded key with the desired accent, then type the letter
   that you want accented.  This allows you to type foreign characters
   in most programs.  It works in string requesters, in CLI, in Ed,
   and in AmigaBasic 1.2.  (It does not work in programs which use
   unprocessed RAW key input).

   So, on a US keyboard for instance,

      ALT/f a     is an 'a' with a ' accent.
      ALT/g a     is an 'a' with a ` accent
      ALT/h e     is an 'e' with a ^ accent
      ALT/j n     is an 'n' with a ~ accent
      ALT/k u     is a 'u' with an umlaut (..) accent


   So, If you want to print foreign characters with AmigaBasic 1.2, you
just type them in your strings.  No escapes required.  Using the DeadKeys,
just put those characters in your normal quoted string and LPRINT the
string.


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REM - HERE IS AN AMIGABASIC EXAMPLE OF 1. and 2. ABOVE:

REM - Escape Test
REM - Remember, If your printer/driver can't do Bold or Italics, it won't.

Bold$   = CHR$(27) + "[1m"
Italic$ = CHR$(27) + "[3m"
Normal$ = CHR$(27) + "[0m"

LPRINT Bold$;"Bold Test";Normal$
LPRINT Italics$;"Italics Test";Normal$
LPRINT "DeadKey Test: (accented letters)"

                            \
                             \
                  I can't show the accented characters in this message.
                  Just type them in as explained above.

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