On Fri, 20 Jan 1995, Allan Skillman wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Any DRIVER Notepad users out there who are a bit peeved that they can't > get all those nice FX which there printer provides? Well I have the solution! > > Yes folks this is another one of those `little routines I wrote over Xmas'. > Basically it installs itself in the heap and intercepts data going to > the 'b' channel looking for Character sequences, which it repaces with > printer escape sequences. > > For example, by default the "Escape code" is \ (can't you tell I use TeX) > and a sequence like \^ gives you superscipt and \_ gives you subscript > etc. The printer sequences are user definiable, and can be any length > so in theory you could do anything. > > If people are interested I will tidy the code up this weekend and upload it > to nvg on monday togeather with the snap converter > > Allan (Finally getting around to some SAM programming) >
Nice one! Though, I've a feeling that the missing characters in the output will screw up the word wrapping. Steve.
