Spooler Plus Utilities Reference Manual

Font Utility
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FONT Directive
FONT Directive
The FONT directive designates a font name and begins the description of a particular
font job. A font job contains commands that can be sent to a printer to control such
features as character sets, vertical forms-control specifications, and compressed
printing.
font-name
identifies the specific font name. The font-name parameter is 1 through 16
alphanumeric characters; the first character must be a letter. If the font already
exists, the subsequent font job description entries modify the existing description.
If the font does not exist in the spooler, a new font job is created.
Considerations
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The description of this font job continues until either the next FONT directive or the
END-FONT directive occurs in the script file.
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If there are no font description entries between this FONT directive and either the
next FONT or END-FONT directive, the font is considered empty. The Font utility
does not create an empty font and does not replace an existing font with an empty
font.
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If a font name associated with a job already exists in the spooler, the Font utility
deletes the current font job and links the new font job number to this font name.
Normal Font Data
Normal font data includes commands that can be sent to a printer to control such
features as character sets, vertical forms-control specifications, and compressed
printing. Refer to your printer documentation for information about printer control
commands. The format in which a command must appear in a script file is called a
data element.
data-element
represents text for a particular instruction for a single font job and can include one
or more lines of text. The four formats of data-element are
"actual-text"
#byte-value
?FONT font-name
Caution. Make sure that the font name you specify is not an existing spooler font unless you
intend to replace the existing font.
data-element [ , data-element ] ...