J.E.Lawrie                                                            HINTS-8.
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PrinterEd - extended use.

  The following is correct for my Epson printer.  It may be correct in  whole,
  or in part for other printers, using the appropriate codes.

  At  the right-hand side of the second page of the PrinterEd you will see the
  figure 163 and under it is  27,82,3,  Put the cursor over this line and move
  right  and  it reveals that this line is really    27,82,3,35,27,82,0  which
  means " if key 163 (# in the U.S.A code) is   pressed,  go  to  the  English
  character  set, pick up character 35 (£) and return to the U.S.A set.  If it
  were not for this the ? key would produce #, as it does in US computers.  We
  need both # and £ - The  #  has its own key - SHIFT 6.

  Drop  down  one  line  in  the PrEd and enter 157, and below it enter "Yours
  Faithfully"  (with the quotes).  Now every time, when in Pipedream you press
  []  and  ] it will show a black square on the screen but on the printout you
  will get  Yours Faithfully

  You can also use 155  -  [][      156  -  []|   and   158  -   []~  for  any
  other  words  or  phrases, up to a max. of 30 characters. Also 160  -  <>SPC
  and 96  -  <> '  provided you don't want to use "hard space" and  the  front
  single quote in your text.
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  The  first  entry on this second page of the PrinterEd is  27,64  To produce
  characters in French or German with their accents and umlauts  etc,  we  can
  use  27,82,1  or  27,82,2  respectively to convert some of the keys.  Keying
  {  for example will produce an  e  with an acute accent in French, or an   a
  with the umlaut in German.

  Before  printing-out  just  change  the 27,64 to whichever of the others you
  want  but  you  must not use the single keys you see in the English line for
  any other purpose or you will get the translation!

  English  27,64      @  [  \  ]  {  |  }  ~
  French   27,82,1    @  [  \  ]  {  |  }  ~ -> 2nd and 8th are used
  German   27,82,2    @  [  \  ]  {  |  }  ~     after "backspace".

  Instead of changing the  whole  of  the  file  to  another  language  it  is
  possible   to  use  highlights  by  changing  the  Printer  Ed  codes.   You
  can alter the codes for Subscript and Superscript (for example) to -

                ON                 OFF             Off at CR
  French -    27,82,1            27,82,0              No
  German -    27,82,2            27,82,0              No

  You can do  as  I  do  and  call  this  version  of  the  PrinterED  by  the
  name FOREIGN so that it is readily available  when  needed.   When  you  are
  "writing"  in  one of these languages you simply put the highlight 5 or 6 at
  the start of the page.  OR - change the "Off at CR" to Yes and just use  the
  highlight  wherever  you  need  it,  as  was  done  here in the lines above.
  Whereas you see foreign letters on the French and German lines  the  letters
  typed  were  identical  to those on the English line.    Have a go!    Great
  fun, even if you don't need it!
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