Msg: Re: FW: Spanish, screen fonts, HP

Dear Manuel,

I thoroughly appreciate your time in addressing my problems.

I want to be able to write in Spanish--and print, of course. I'm taking a Spanish course.

Part of my problem is that I seem inadvertently to have not loaded the screen fonts when I reinstalled Xy4 a month back. I hate to go through the entire install--but I don't know and can't find the name for the screen fonts, which it tells me I must know. (How the hell would anyone know?) So I can't see what I'm accenting (or not accenting).

I put ESC R 11 (p. 8:11 from Epson printer manual for "selecting international character set Spain II". Further information was "Dec. 82, Hex. 52)") under "printer information" on its own line with the semicolon after. Saved it. Loaded it--and got "file contains unknown command." For 10 years I've tried to figure how to use "esc," but no book tells me. So, that didn't work. Deleted the line and saved the original. Back to where I started. Hugely frustrated and angry.

----- Original Message -----

From: "M.C." <fenda@xxxxxxxx>

To: <xywrite@xxxxxxxx>

Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 8:02 AM

Subject: Re: FW: Spanish, screen fonts, HP

> >>
> >>Is there a way, a font, with which I can print Spanish? I use Xywrite generally
> >>with my ESC P2 Epson printer 5000. Epson manual says to use ESC R7 command to
> >>load a Spanish capability--but they don't tell me whether to chant it over the
> >>zip drive or stuff it into the paper-loading tray.

Sorry. Manual says ESC R 11, not 7, for Spanish II, which I assume gives a full set of accents? (But maybe not, in which case I don't want to fool with it.)

> >>
>
> I don't understand your question very well: are we speaking about
> writing (and printing) Spanish texts or only printing Spanish texts? If
> you want to write Spanish texts, it's necessary to modify (or customize)
> your keyboard layout and to set up your system configuration files
> (typically, CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT under MS-DOS) accordingly. But I
> suppose your goal is only to print Spanish texts. In this case, you only
> need to put in your .PRN file the ESC P/2 code that activates the 850
> CodePage and not ESC R7, unless your texts have been customized for the
> use of that Epson feature. The right code should start "ESC(t" (maybe
> "ESC(t30") but I can't test it here. The place to put that code in your
> PRN file should be the FB line (section "Printer Information"). ESC
> codes are additives, so it's possible to add the code to your FB line. I
> hope this helps.
> Best regards,
> Manuel Castelao
>>