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I had a Brother daisywheel printer for my Superbrain, and I didn't like the options for chapter headings in text, as they didn't stand out enough for me. I want
by hollander 10y ago
I had a Brother daisywheel printer for my Superbrain, and I didn't like the options for chapter headings in text, as they didn't stand out enough for me. I wanted them to be bolder than normal bold. With the daisywheel I had only one font, not like a matrix printer which had all kind of fonts.
One bold tag around text like (b)example(b) made the printer retype that text one time. It turned out that (b)(b)(b)example(b)(b)(b) resulted in four times typing "example". This was hammered (literally) into the paper, so on the backside you could see and read the text as well. Using capitals, varying degrees of bold-repetitions, I could get what I wanted.
- vram22 10y agoHa, good anecdote. This is the same technique that I wrote about in this post, though mine was about Unix man pages: m, a Unix shell utility to save cleaned-up man pages as text: https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/03/m-unix-shell-utility-to-save-cleaned-up.html https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/03/m-unix-shell-utility-to-s...
- Starwatcher2001 10y agoI used a similar hack to persuade an Epson MX80 printer to produce slashed zeros by sending '0', <backspace> '/'.