rsl@ecsvax.UUCP (Roberta Little) (03/29/88)
Has anyone used AppleWorks on a //gs with French? How can you get the ImageWriter II to print circumflex and dieresis over the letters? Does it require some type of imbedded code in the document? If it can't be done, can anyone recommend a good word processor that will be able to print the special characters? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Roberta S. Little (rsl@ecsvax.uucp) -- Roberta Sloan Little (rsl@ecsvax) Curriculum Software Consultant triangle area - 549-0671 UNC-ECS, POB 12035, RTP, NC 27709 outside triangle in NC - 800-672-8244
buyse@convex.UUCP (03/30/88)
I think that you will need a printer that can print those special French
characters. If you have one already, you might be able to define the
underline as a special printer command sequence to change into and out of
foreign-language character sets.
You can then put inside the text of your Appleworks document the
'underline begin' character, followed by the character that matches the
ascii value of the foreign language character that you wish to print,
followed by the 'unerline end' character.
It depends completely on your printer setup, I believe.
-Russell Buyse.
UUCP: {allegra,ihnp4,uiucdcs,ctvax}!convex!buysejetzer@studsys.mu.edu (jetzer) (03/30/88)
In article <4818@ecsvax.UUCP>, rsl@ecsvax.UUCP (Roberta Little) writes: > > Has anyone used AppleWorks on a //gs with French? How can you get the > ImageWriter II to print circumflex and dieresis over the letters? Does > it require some type of imbedded code in the document? > > If it can't be done, can anyone recommend a good word processor that will > be able to print the special characters? > > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I assume you already know how to get the French chars on the screen, so I won't go into that. There are two ways to get the IWriter // to print the French characters. 1. Set the DIP Switches. To do this, turn the printer off and set switches 1-1, 1-2, and 1-3 to open, closed, closed, respectively. Turn the printer back on. The printer will now print the French character set. 2. Set a printer control string with the software. Using AppleWorks, set the 'interface card' (in the main menu/other activities/printer info menu) to include ESC Z CTRL-A CTRL-@ ESC D CTRL-F CTRL-@ (Don't include the spaces; they're there only for clarity). This tells the IWriter to print the French char set. Now then, the French character set is as follows: English French equiv. Char ------- ------------- # English pound sign ('L' w/ line through it) $ $ @ lowercase 'a' with a '`' over it [ what appears to be a degree sign (raised circle) \ lowercase 'c' with a 'tail' ] what looks like a capital 'S' with a circle in the middle ^ ^ ` ` { lower case 'e' with a backwards '`' over it | lower case 'u' with a '`' over it } lower case 'e' with '`' over it ~ what looks like a set of umlauts (sideways ':') You'll have to forgive me; I don't know French. All I have in front of me is the reference manual for the IWriter I (I know for a fact that the above info is correct, because I have an IWriter // and use the German char set a lot). I assume that these character substitutions are the same as the keyboard. I recall setting the GS control panel (I use a GS at my summer job) to German once just for the heck of it, and the correct substitutions were made. If you are using AppleWorks 2.0, you will have trouble entering the control codes. There's a bug in it that prevents it from accepting the Ctrl-@ key stroke. There is a patch to get around this, but I don't have this handy. Send me e-mail if you need it. (You could write a basic program to do this before you boot AWorks, if you like.) -- __ Mike Jetzer "If you can't be right, be forceful" uwvax!uwmcsd1!marque!studsys!jetzer
halp@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU ("Bruce P. Halpern") (04/01/88)
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