Youprobablywon’tchangesymbolsetsveryoften,unlessyouneedspecial
symbolsfor yourtradeor regularlywritein a languageotherthanEnglish.
Whenyoudoneedthem,though,inoneoranotheremulationmodeyourStar
LaserPrinter4 supportssymbolsetsfor allthesecountries:
U.S. (ASCII) UnitedKingdom
France
Germany
Sweden
Finland
Italy
Denmark Norway
Spain
Besidestheseyourprintersupportssetscontainingjustsymbols,suchasthe
Greekalphabet(13),logicsymbols(S),arrows(t), theqjistered trademark
symbol(@)andso on.
3.3.2 Each emulationhas symbolsets
Yourlaser printerworksby emulatingor followingcommandsdeveloped
originallyforotherprinters.Oneof the StarLaserPrinter8’sadvantagesis
thatitoffefiyouachoiceofseveralbuilt-insymbolsetsforeachfontineach
emulation.
TheactualFX-850,printerdoesnotusesymbolsetstoproduceinternational
accentedcharactemandspecialsymbols.Instead,theFX-8501etsyoudefine
whichcharactersyouwantwithparametersettings.
WhenyourStarLaserPnnter4 isemulatingtheHPLaserJetIIP,thenormal
default symbol set is the Roman-8set. Roman-8includesall the usual
keyboardcharacters,numbersandsymbolsinASCII,plusaccentedfo~ign-
languageCharactersand specialsymbols(butnothingfor linedrawing).
TheEpsonFX-850emulationismllyvematile. Itletsyouhavebothofthose
IBMsymbolsetsplusEpson’sownstandardsymbolset.ThisEpsonsymbol
setisunusual:it containsbothuprightanditaliccharactersin the sameset.
You may also choosefrom symbolsets for all the countriesmentioned
above,plusa seconduniqueset foreachof Denmarkand Spain.
3.3.3 Defaultfontattributes
Whenyoupoweronyourprinterandchooseanemulation,theinternalfonts
startoffwithdefaultattributeswhichyoucanchangeasneeded.Thedefault
symbolsetsdependon theemulation:in LaserJetIIP modethe defaultis
Roman-8,andin EpsonEX-800modeit’sEpsonStdUSA.
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