BRESNAHA@BCVAX3.BITNET (Scott Bresnahan) (11/20/86)
To All Appleworks Users:
Well, I finally decided to dust off my AppleWorks disk and put
it to use (I prefer the powerful DOS 3.3 and AppleWriter //e). Well,
I typed up my letter to my friend, and went to print it. But I found
out that the boldface ctrl-b (which I defined as ESC1 that's a ML-92)
did not work at all! I cannot get the underline, boldface or any other
control character printer code to work!!
My question: How do I get the STUPID AppleWorks program to
figure out that I want the whole document in 'correspondence' quality?
Or, how do I embed control characters in my text so I can do this stuff
"by hand?" Is AppleWorks worth the the word processor??
My printer is an Okidata microline-92. ESC1 is the start of
correspondence quality, ESC0 stops it. That's the main thing I want
to work.
Please reply via info-apple as quickly as possible. My letter
is slowing becoming yesterdays news.
After encountering this problem, I remember why I put the dumb
AppleWorks in moth balls!!
Totally frustraded and anti-anythingWorks,
Scott Bresnahan (BRESNAHA @ BCVAX3)
PS:
* My view of ProDos:
ProDos is NOT better for 140k drives...it wastes
too much time and space. Who cares about sub directories unless you
have 1.5+ meg available to you! I'm use a VAX with 2meg used. And I
only have 3 sub directories. ProDos is like the Mac. Closed to the
user. That's why I don't have a Mac, that's why I don't use SlowDos,
ah, ProDos.
----- DOS 3.3 and 3.4 lives!!mw22@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Michael Alan Wertheim) (11/21/86)
In a recent post, Scott Bresnahan complained about trying to send control characters to the printer from Appleworks. This was a topic mentioned in Open Apple (Vol. 1, #8). To paraphrase Weishaar: find a character pitch or width, between 4 and 24, that your printer doesn't support, and use these commands to send your own control characters to the printer. For example, if ESC 1 tells the printer to start correspondence quality and ESC 0 tells the printer to stop correspondence quality, then set the 4-character-per-inch code to ESC 1 and the 5-character-per-inch code to ESC 0. Then, to turn on correspondence quality from the word processor, turn on 4 cpi, print a return, and switch back to 10 cpi. To turn off correspondence quality, turn on 5 cpi, print a return, and switch back to 10 cpi. Also, if you don't want Appleworks to turn off boldface or underlining at the end of paragraphs, set the boldface-end or underline-end control characters to nothing. Mike Wertheim
mw22@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Michael Alan Wertheim) (11/21/86)
>> Also, if you don't want Appleworks to turn off boldface or underlining at >>the end of paragraphs, set the boldface-end or underline-end control >>characters to nothing. >Well and good, but if one does that, how does one explicitly turn >off bolding/underlining when one wants to? The original problem was how to print an entire file in correspondence quality. Solution: Leave the boldface and underline codes the way they are. Define 4 cpi as the code to turn on correspondence quality and 5 cpi as the code to turn it off. Then to turn on correspondence quality, turn on 4 cpi, print a return, and then go back to 10 cpi. To turn it off, turn on 5 cpi, print a return, and then go back to 10 cpi. To print a bunch of paragraphs in boldface, start each one with a control-B. Mike Wertheim
mbrookov@udenva.UUCP (mbrookov) (11/24/86)
In article <8611200639.AA19382@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> BRESNAHA@BCVAX3.BITNET (Scott Bresnahan) writes: > My question: How do I get the STUPID AppleWorks program to >figure out that I want the whole document in 'correspondence' quality? >Or, how do I embed control characters in my text so I can do this stuff >"by hand?" Is AppleWorks worth the the word processor?? > > My printer is an Okidata microline-92. ESC1 is the start of >correspondence quality, ESC0 stops it. That's the main thing I want >to work. I own the Immagewriter //, and am to lazy to reach over to press the buttons to put the silly thing in correspondance quality, what I did to get around this problem was to define a second printer (AppleWorks lets you define up to 3) with the interface card setting changed to the control code for high quality and the CTRL-I80N for the interface card setting. Appleworks does not seem to care what is in the interface card setting, it just prints it out. If the card does not process it the printer will. For your Okidata try either CONTROL-I80NESC1 or CONTROL-I80N(CR)ESC1 where (CR) is a carrage return. then select this second printer when you print your document, and it shoud print in high quality. your interface card will see the CONTROL-I80N and process it, and pass the ESC1 to the printer, which should shitch to high quality mode. the only problem that you might run into is AppleWorks version 1.0 and 1.1 do not have a facility for setting the printer interface card control characters. if you have 1.0 or 1.1 you will need to get one of these: version 1.2 was free from the dealer, try them and see version 1.3 was $20 but no longer available version 2.0 is currently $50 you must get a mailer to send to Apple to get this update. what the differences are: 1.0 and 1.1 had many problems with printers besides Apple's and Epson's 1.2 fixed these printer problems. 1.3 suported the Apple // memory expansion card 2.0 suports the Apple // memory expansion card, and the //GS memory expansion cards, and it increases the data base from 1300 some odd records to 6000 some odd and the word processor form 2250 some odd lines to 7000 some odd lines. it has some very nice mail merdge capibilities. they also added a round function to the spread sheet. you will have to see a dealer to get the update mailer. Matt Brookover all standard disclaimers apply, it works for me so please try it.