Highlights enable you to exploit the special facilities of your printer to print text in different styles.
The following highlight options are available from the
menu. You can either select them from the menu or type in the key combinations.Highlight 1 | Underline | Ctrl-PU |
Highlight 2 | Bold | Ctrl-PB |
Highlight 3 | Extended sequence | Ctrl-PX |
Highlight 4 | Italic | Ctrl-PI |
Highlight 5 | Subscript | Ctrl-PL |
Highlight 6 | Superscript | Ctrl-PR |
Highlight 7 | Alternate font | Ctrl-PA |
Highlight 8 | User defined | Ctrl-PE |
The effect of the bold, underline, italics, superscript and subscript codes are displayed on the screen. The other codes are displayed as highlighted numbers 1 to 8. The effect of these codes when printing the document will depend on the facilities of the printer driver being used.
Insert the appropriate highlight codes each side of the text to be highlighted.
For example, to underline a word:
1. Position the caret at the start of the word and give the Underline command:
Menu | Command | Ctrl-sequence | Key |
---|---|---|---|
Underline | PU |
2. Position the caret at the end of the word and give the Underline command again.
To put a word in bold:
Give the Bold command at the start and end of the word:
Menu | Command | Ctrl-sequence | Key |
---|---|---|---|
Bold | PB |
In the case of bold and underlined text, the effect will be displayed on the screen when you move the caret off the slot. Note that highlights are automatically cancelled at the end of a slot.
1. Mark the block.
2. Give the Highlight Block command:
Menu | Command | Ctrl-sequence | Key |
---|---|---|---|
Highlight block | PHB |
3. When the dialogue box appears, type in the required highlight number.
Typing in 1, for example, would cause every word in the marked block to be underlined.
1. Mark the block.
2. Give the Remove Highlights command:
Menu | Command | Ctrl-sequence | Key |
---|---|---|---|
Remove highlights | PHR |
3. When the dialogue box appears, type in the number of the highlight to be removed from the block.
For information on | See |
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Highlight codes in printer drivers | PipeDream Printer Driver Editing |
Using fonts with RISC OS printer drivers | Fonts |