Re: Printing Accented Characters

[SysOp]

Robert, the ASCII-8 (backspace) cannot by effected on a laser printer simply
because the printer cannot *backup* in the way that a dot matrix does (in most
cases). There is a way however that you can accomplish this. You would have to
use the PI command and insert *negative* movement code, such as the code found
in our Microjustification tables in the .PRN files. In these .PRN files we use
*positive* movement code (i.e. Esc*p+20X). You can enter a PI command such as
Esc*p-20X or whatever value is necessary. I believe that you can find this code
in the HP User's Manual.

Unfortunately, I do not believe we will see any change in the composition of
the Bitstream Character Set. The additional characters you refer to are not
associated with Bitstream, that is correct. You would have to have a font (i.e.
soft font, cartridge, etc.) to have access to these. We added all of these
characters based on about 10 IBM code pages. And, in addition, to access the
characters which are not Bitstream or lower ASCII, you would be required to
create a substitution table in your .PRN file to map the XyWrite character
value (i.e. 843) to the memory location of the character contained in the soft
font or cartridge. Not so easy of a task, but it can be done in cases where you
have a font with the desired character.

There is a default (BS=0, BS=1) which is the Backspace Default. Maybe this is
the code you are looking for.

Regards, SysOp