kp74615@kaakkuri.tut.fi (Karri Tapani Palovuori) (02/23/90)
I'm posting this for my friend ahahma@kontu.utu.fi (their news-system is full of bugs): Help! I have a Citizen Swift 24 matrix printer and I would like to define some characters for it. The command for defining them is ESC & chr(n) chr(fc) chr(lc)..., where lc is the ascii code of the last character to be defined, fc is the code for the first character to be defined and n is font family number, which should be in the range 0 to 127. Finally the actual data for the new character is given. The command is essentially the same as for an Epson LQ printer. The question is: what does that font family number mean? The user manual does not explain it any further. The only self-defined character I've managed to get is the one presented in the example program in the manual. In the example the character 64 = "@" is redefined to print a copyright sign. The font family number used in the program is 0. If I change either that number or the character ascii code, the program won't work any more. It just prints some rubbish. I can't understand, why I can redefine only the character ascii 64, as the manual claims, I should be able to redefine any of the characters in the printer character table. Does the mystic font family number have some influence on that? Another solution to the problem is to get a wp5.0 printer driver, which supports all of the Greek letters. I've been trying to define them, but the printer won't cooperate! Please, email me the answer. ahahma@kontu.utu.fi