Spooler Utilities Reference Manual

Font Utility
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Normal Font Data
%byte-value
Hbyte-value
To enter actual text, delimit the text with quotation marks ("). To specify the value
of a byte, precede byte-value with the symbol for the numeric base as follows:
Considerations

A single comma must separate data elements that appear on a single line.

The Font utility inserts each line of data into the spooler font job with one
input/output (I/O) operation.
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The Font utility does not add line feed (LF) or carriage return (CR) characters
unless they are part of the data. Interpretation of this data by the spooler print
process, input/output process (IOP), or printer depends on any SETMODE
directives that precede the CONTROLBUF directive.
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To prevent each line being terminated with an LF CR by the print process, use a
SETMODE directive (?SETMODE 6 0 1) to enable transparent operation.
Example
The following example is a font job that allows a Tandem 5537 or 5577 printer to print
double-sided. The normal data appears between the two SETMODE directives.
?FONT LXPX2D ! Font name
?SETMODE 6 0 1 ! Transparent
%33,"E" ! Reset
%33,"(8U",%33,"(s0p16.67h7.0v0s0b8T" ! Rmn 8 Pres Elite
! 7 pt 16.67 cpi
%33,"&l0O" ! Portrait
%33,"&l26A" ! A4 Paper
%33,"&k7.045H" ! HMI = 7.045 120ths
%33,"&l3.9C" ! VMI = 3.9 48ths
%33,"&l1S" ! Duplex Long Edge Binding
%33,"&a1L" ! Left Margin 1
?SETMODE 6 1 0 ! Normal
?CONTROLBUF 103 ! FASTP Top Of Form Substitute
%33,"&a67r0c1L"; ! Posn to Row 67 Col 0 Left
! Margin 1
?CONTROLBUF 103 ! FASTP Top Of Form Substitute
%33,"&a1L",%14,%15; ! Left Margin 1, FF CR
!!
! Note that 5573 and 5577 printers require an optional font
! cartridge to supply the 7-point type font in this job.
# Decimal
%Octal
H Hexadecim
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