IBM Proprinter XL24E - Underline Broken When

DocumentID: 645156
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:03 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer is using the IBM Proprinter XL24E and created a document in WP 5.0. He has now taken this file into WP 5.1. The document has an expression as follows: x2-y z The 2 is superscripted and the x2-y is underlined. The underline is broken where the 2 is superscripted. The customer had a similar problem in WP 5.0 and was sent a "fix", he could not remember the fix or a work around. Solutions: We changed the Automatic Font Changes (AFC's) so that the printer selects the same font for Super and Subscript as for the Base font. This corrected the problem. This is a limitation of the printer. If the font is changed so are the spacing units and the size of the underline character, as well as the vertical position that it is placed at. There is no way around this short of the change that is made in the PTR program. The exact steps for this change are as follows: 1. Enter the PTR Program and retrieve the .PRS file. Press Enter on the printer name. 2. Move to "Fonts" and press Enter ***Perform the next steps on each of the fonts being used as a Base font*** 3. Press Enter on the font name and move to "Automatic Font Change". 4. Press Enter and move to Superscript 5. Press Enter and highlight the same font name that you are editing. For example, if you are editing the Courier 10 CPI font (from Step #5), highlight that font now. 6. Mark this font with an *. 7. Press F7 and highlight Subscript. 8. Press Enter and highlight the same font you are editing. 9. Mark that font with an *. 10. After performing these steps with each of the fonts that the customer is having a problem with, exit the PTR program and save the changes. Because this is a problem with this particular printer, the algorithms that WP uses to select AFC's will not be changed.

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