                EPSON Glossary users manual 


     For those of you who use Epson printers extensively,
you may wish to have some means of making printouts look
more professional, a little more flashy, maybe even
striking.  Just plain old print fonts don't do much for me,
but they do transmit information.  There is a SuperVUE
glossary file that you can use to dress up your files and
make them appear a little bit better.  (Note:  this
glossary will not make you a better writer or improve your
dry old report into a Pulitzer Prize winner, it will only
make them  look  better.) This glossary allows you to imbed
within your document control characters to change the font
to normal, emphasized, double strike, double width,
compressed, headline, italics, subscript and superscript,
and a compressed line size.  You may find it handy.

     To begin, you must load the glossary into your memory
while editing a file.  This is done from the command mode:

     >GLOSS EPSON <CR>

(as always, upper or lower case are immaterial.  Spelling
is material, however.  Any time you are required to type
something, the proper format will be underscored.
Depressing the RETURN key is signified with <CR>.  Anytime
you are to depress the Control key along with another key,
the format given is ^G.  This means "hold the control key
down while pressing the letter G key down.")

     After pressing the return key, the screen will display
the following menu:

     G   EPSON.GLS Print mode Options
     A   Regular line spacing (6 lines / inch)
     B   Bold headline (one line only)
     C   Compressed mode
     D   Double strike
     E   Emphasized text
     F   Narrow line spacing (10 lines / inch)
     I   Italics on
     L   Elite mode
     M   Cancel Elite mode
     N   Normal text
     O   Italics off
     P   Super Script a line
     S   Sub Script a line
     W   Double width mode on (more than one line)
     X   Double width mode off

If you ever want to see the options from where ever you are
in your document (you don't have to be in the command
mode), simply press  ^GG  to have the menu displayed.  It
will appear right in the middle of your text, but don't
panic, it is only on your screen.  If you were very
observant, when you pressed ^G, a little G character
appeared in the upper right hand corner of your screen. 
This is to tell you that the next character you press will
be processed by the Glossary.  If it finds a match from the
list above, it will do whatever the glossary program says
to do.  If no match is found, it then pretends nothing
happened and continues in the editing mode.  

     The EPSON glossary inserts special text into your
document in the form of dot commands.  In reality, you
could do everything that this glossary does by hand after
reading this, but I have a poor memory and am even a poorer
typist.  It is easier for me to let a program insert
special codes into the document and know that it is done
right each time.  The remainder of this document will
discuss what happens when you hit ^G followed by one of the
listed letters.  

      YOU MUST BE IN THE EDIT MODE (i.e., have the text of
your report on the screen) TO USE THESE COMMANDS PROPERLY.

I.   General font control modes
      ^GN   Normal text
            Glossary response: .control ^R^[H^[F

            This font is the normal text that is
            used for most draft copies turned
            out.  It prints at 10 characters per
            inch (CPI), high printing speed, and
            good readability.

      ^GC   Compressed mode
            Glossary response: .control ^R^[H^[F^O

            This is the same as above but prints at
            17 CPI.  This cannot be mixed with
            emphasized or doublestrike modes can
            be mixed with italics, double width,
            underline, sub- and superscript.  

            You must change the .margin command by
            a factor of 1.7 to have this mode to
            print out properly.  For example, the
            margin for this document was set at 8
            for normal text.  To have the compressed
            mode print out in the same margins the
            .margin 14 command was given (8 x 1.7 =
            14 approximately). It is very useful for
            printing out wide tables or to serve as
            "fine print" on a contract.

      ^GL   Elite mode
            Glossary response: .control ^R^[M

            This print mode is really nice for those
            tables that are just slightly larger
            than regular pica margins will allow. 
            Elite size characters are placed at 12
            per inch (as opposed to 10), thus you
            can fit a table that is 72 characters
            wide in a 60 character pica space. 
            Emphasized and condensed modes cannot be
            mixed with elite.  Also, to get any of
            the other print modes to work properly,
            you must CANCEL the elite mode with  ^GM 
            Glossary response: .control ^[P
            This sets the print back to the most
            previous setting, in this case, Normal.

      ^GE   Emphasized text
            Glossary response: .control ^R^[H^[F^[E

            Emphasized font is darker and still
            prints with fair rapidity.  It cannot be
            used with compressed mode.  This type is
            acceptable to the Graduate College as
            final quality type. You can also use
            this to emphasize a section of your
            report or for section titles by going
            from Emphasized to normal and back.

      ^GD   Double strike
            Glossary response: .control ^R^[H^[F^[G

            In double strike, the print head passes
            over each line twice, slightly offset by
            one dot.  This can be used in
            conjunction with Emphasized text to make
            very dark print.  Printing speed is
            slow, however.  This, too, is accepted
            by the Graduate College as final quality
            type.

      ^GW   Double width mode (more than one line)
            Glossary response: .control ^[W1
            This font is precisely the opposite of
            compressed mode.  If you are presently
            printing using 10 CPI, double  width
            mode will print in 5 CPI.  It will be in
            effect until you turn it off with ^GX  
            (Glossary response: .control ^[W0)

            When used in conjunction with compressed
            mode, the effect is kind of nice.  Not
            awesome, but nice.

            Once again, you must modify the ruler
            and the .margin command to make sure
            that your text will fit on the page when
            it is printed.

      ^GI   Italics on
            Glossary response: .control ^[4

            Italics are nice and can be used in
            conjunction with any of the above print
            modes.  This is being printed as a
            combination of Emphasized and Italics.
            To stop this mode, you must use the  ^GO 
            (Glossary response: .control ^[5)
            to get back to the previously assigned
            font.

II.  Special effects
      ^GB   Bold headline (one line only)
            Glossary response: .control ^R^[G^[E^N

            The bold headline is a one line at a
            time mode that is a combination of
            double width, double strike, and
            emphasized mode, all at once.  Once
            again, reduce the left hand margin and
            be careful of the right hand margin
            because all characters (even spaces) are
            double width.  

            Be sure to re-assign your preferred
            printing font immediately after using
            this mode.  The printer will stay in
            double strike, emphasized mode after
            this line is printed but will shift out
            of double width.

      ^GP   Super Script a line
            Glossary response: .control ^[S0
                               .nofeed

                               .control ^[T

            This one is different from all the rest
            and takes a little more explaining. 
            There are four lines of codes generated:
            the .control line, a .NOFEED line, a
            blank line, and then another .control
            line.  Perhaps an example would work
            best.

            Say, for example, you had the following
            formula that you wanted to express using
            a superscript:

            My original hypothesis (E = mc3) was
            wrong.

            To make the 3 an exponent, you must have
            the 3 on a separate line, like this:

                                          3
            My original hypothesis (E = mc ) was
            wrong.

            Now with the cursor on the same line as
            the 3, press  ^GP  which gives the
            following lines:

            .control ^[S0
            .nofeed
                                          3
            .control ^[T
            My original hypothesis (E = mc ) was
            wrong.

            The printer is shifted into superscript 
            mode, no line feed will be sent after
            printing the 3, the superscript mode is
            turned off, and then the rest of the
            line is printed around the 3.

            Confused?  Trust me, it works.

      ^GS   Sub Script a line
            Glossary response: .control ^[S1
                               .nofeed

                               .control ^[T

            This is exactly the same as
            superscripting but the results are a
            subscript.

            Just remember, have the cursor on the
            line that you wish to have printed as
            either sub- or superscript and then hit
            the ^G option for either one of these
            switches.  Whether the artical is to be
            either sub- or superscripted, it should
            be ABOVE the main line of text, just as
            in the superscripting examples.

      ^GA   Normal line spacing
            Glossary response: .control ^[2

            Normally, you will want to have your
            text printed using the normal
            linespacing (the distance between lines
            vertically on the page).  If there has
            been some mad programmer on the system,
            one of those programs may have altered
            the line spacing and you may have to set
            it back to normal.  This glossary will
            not be used 99 44/100% of the time, but
            it is included because of the next
            command.

      ^GF   Narrow line spacing (10 lines / inch)
            Glossary response:  .control ^[1

            Occasionally, you may wish to draw a
            picture, or a map, or some such object
            that would look better if the space
            between the lines was not there.  This
            command will perform that function.

            For example, say you wanted to have the
            following diagram in your text:

               0123456789
            1 |..........|
            2 |          |       A 10 X 10
            3 |          |
            4 |          |
            5 |          |       Matrix with a point at
            6 |          |
            7 |          |
            8 |     x    |       coordinates 8,5.
            9 |          |
           10 |..........|


            Doesn't look very square, does it?  By
            changing the line spacing using  ^GF , it
            now prints out to be square.

            You just must be sure to set the line
            spacing back to normal after using this
            option using  ^GA .  

            (WARNING:  Although SuperVUE is a pretty
            smart program, it is not smart enough to
            know that you have changed the line
            spacing in your output file from 66
            lines per page to 110 lines.  Therefore,
            a page break will be issued several
            lines early, depending upon how many
            lines were included in the narrow line
            spacing mode.  If you have a large
            diagram, you may need to alter the
            length of the document for that page
            only using the .LENGTH or .STRETCH
            commands.  See the SuperVUE manual for
            an explanation of those commands.


     Now that you have all of those handy control codes
imbedded in your document, you are ready to print, right? 
                         WRONG!!!

     Just one more important matter: the last font control
in your document should be a  ^GN  to set the printer back to
normal print.  This will relieve many printer problems with
people printing something on a font that they did not
chose.  Also, the safe method of being sure that your
document is printed correctly is to set the print font at
the very beginning, assume nothing good is out there.

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