J.E.Lawrie HINTS-8. V.2 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. ________________________ 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! END Back to HINTS-INDEX