Laser Printer Applications Manual

defaultsettings.

Whenyouwantto selecttheoppositeorientation,sendthis command:

<ESC>&tn O

in whichfor n youput Oto get portraitorientation,

or 1to get landscapeorientation.

(Notice:the/character afterthe&is a lowercaseL.)

Symbol sets: a review

Eachfontcanhavemanysymbolsets,eachbeingasubsetof allthepossible

characters of the font. These subgroupsinclude different symbols for

different nations or for lawyers or artists or mathematicians.Any two

symbol sets, moreover,may store the same symbol at a different font

positionin theprinter’smcmory.

ThedefaultLaserJetIIemulationsymbolsetisRoman-8,whichincludesall

ASCIIcharactersplusdozensofaccentedletters.Butyoucanuseanyofthe

sets shown below. Technicallyyou can pair any symbol set with any

internal,cartridgeordownloadedfont;howeveritdocsn’tmakemuchsense

to printtextwitha mathor line-drawingsymbolset.

LaserJetHmodeprovidestwo differentsymbolset commands.Youput a

codeintoone commandto selectaparticularsymbolset for yourprimary

orsecondaryfont.YouU.SCtheothercommandtoselectthecurrentordefault

symbolset foryourprimaryor secondaryfont.

Selecting a symbol set

Thisfirstsymbolsetcommandletsyouselectaparticularsymbolsetforthe

current font. To select a symbol set for your primary font, send this

command:

<ESC>( n

For n enteroneof the followingsymbolcodes.The firstcharactermustbe

a digit andthe secondan uppercaseletter.

CODEn

SYMBOLSET

Math-7symbols

LineDrawcharacters

1S0 60:Norwegian

RomanExtension

1S0 25: French

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