
                    CHARACTER TRANSLATION FOR YOUR PRINTER


    Suppose you have drawn a box on your screen like the   ┌─────────────┐
    one shown on your right, and then you want to print    │             │
    your file.  If your printer is not able to print the   │             │
    characters which make up the box, you may end up with  │             │
    a box on your printed sheet that looks like the one    │             │
    shown below.                                           └─────────────┘

    CMMMMMMMMMMMMMC   With the Printer Translation Table   +-------------+
    D             D   capability in PC-TYPE+, you could    :             :
    D             D   define alternative characters to     :             :
    D             D   be sent to your printer to end up    :             :
    D             D   with a box that might look like the  :             :
    CMMMMMMMMMMMMMC   one shown on the right.              +-------------+

                              Press the PgDn Key

    The process could be viewed as shown below.
           ┌──────┐           ┌─────────┐
           │ File │           │ Xlation │           ┌─────────┐
           │ Data │---abcde--│  Table  │---ABCDE--│ Printer │
           │      │           │  Info   │           └─────────┘
           └──────┘           └─────────┘

    In this example the translation table might look like:
          ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
          │                   Translation Table               │
          ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
          │   Change this character       to this character   │
          │            a                        A             │
          │            b                        B             │
          │            c                        C             │
          │            ...                      ...           │
          └───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

                              Press the PgDn Key



    To set up your Translation Table you must enter the "Modify Defaults"
    Panel and select the "Character Translation Table" option by tabbing
    to that field and then pressing the F10 key.

    (Before you do this, read the following.)

    You can always return to your edit screen by pressing Esc once or
    twice and answering No to the question "Do you want to save..."


    Okay, take a look.  You get to the Modify Defaults panel by pressing
    F8 and then F2.  Just look at the table and escape back to here.




                              Press the PgDn Key

    You may have noticed that there was a symbol highlighted under the
    '' character and a period under the '·' character.  (The symbol under
    the '' will appear any time you want to replace a character to be
    sent to your printer with a space.)

    The '' is the "Hard-Space" marker which will be translated into a
    normal space before being sent to the printer, and the '·' is the
    "Soft-Period" marker which will be translated into a normal period
    before being sent to the printer.


    In general, to read the table:
    (1) Any character with no highlighted character beneath it will be
        sent to the printer with no modification.

    (2) Any highlighted character will be sent to the printer instead of
        the unhighlighted character above it.

                              Press the PgDn Key

    To cause a capital 'A' to be sent to your printer every time a small
    'a' is encountered in a file being printed, you must move the cursor
    in the Translation Table to the 'a' character and then press F10.

    In the new display panel of characters, move the cursor to the
    character 'A' and press F10.  If you do this, you will see that a
    highlighted 'A' will appear under the unhighlighted character 'a'.
    Try it.

    (In both panels you may use the Enter, End, Home, ... keys.)

    (Remember, F8/F2 gets you to the Modify Defaults panel.  Tab to the
    Print Character Replacement option and press F10.  The Esc key will
    get you back to here.)

    If you now printed a file within PC-TYPE+, every 'a' in the file would
    be sent to your printer as an 'A'.

                              Press the PgDn Key




    The change you just made to the Printer Translation Table will not be
    permanent until you exercise the "Save Defaults" option under F8 or
    answer 'Y' to the question "Save Modifications" when exiting the
    Modify Defaults panel.

    We suggest you go back and change the translation back to normal.
    If you do, notice that the highlighted 'A' disappears.








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