Re: PostScript substitutions

[Alan Heubert aheubert@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Phil,

I don't know enough to answer your question directly. But tell me, why
don't you simply use XyWrite's em-dash character, which is ASCII 260.

At 09:57 AM 3/19/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Has anyone out there had experience with substitutions in a PostScript .PRN
>file not working? Here is my problem (in Xy4 4.011):
>
>I am trying to print an em-dash, a character which is available in
>PostScript but not normally available on the keyboard (in the standard
>ASCII 96-character set). So I enter some character, in this case the
>'equivalent' symbol, decimal 240, in my text file. In the .PRN file I go
>down to the SUBSTITUTION TABLES and make a new entry like:
>
>*=\320
>
>where I have used the asterisk to represent the (240) character and \320 is
>the PostScript value of the em-dash in the font I am printing.
>
>Now, what happens is that instead of \320 in the FO.TMP file I get \176,
>which is apparently Xy4's default for an unknown character. It prints as a
>wiggle (an 'ASCII tilde' which is not high enough to go over a character).
>This happens with some other characters which I treat this way.
>
>I have gotten around it by using instead of (240) some other character, in
>this case (202), which doesn't look a think like a dash (240 has the virtue
>of sort of looking like a hyphen or em-dash). By entering a line in the
>.PRN file like the above, only with (202) instead of (240), I get my em-dash.
>
>Does anyone have an answer as to WHY this is happening? It obviously isn't
>serious, since one can work around it, but it is a nuisance. And I am
curious.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Phil Smith
>
>