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**Frank Ferrell** · 20 Oct 2001, 10:43 AM

greetings --

i believe that an "e" is being used as a sign for the euro.

you have a choice between the letter e -- chr$(69) --- or a
special type of "e" -- chr$(238).

there are two other variations of "e" -- chr$(144) and chr$(228)

run the sample code below to see all four e's on-screen. then run it again,
substituting lprint for print and see if your printer will print any or
all of the four e's.

Code:

$compile memory
cls
   
color 11
print " types of ";chr$(34,69,34);" characters available with powerbasic dos"
' 34 is the " mark -- 69 is upper-case e
  
for emarx=1 to 7
read qet 
print

color 15: print chr$(32,qet);:' 32 is the space character
color 10: print " 400,000"
  
if emarx=4 then
   color 11
   print
   print " compare with other currency symbols"
end if
  
next emarx
   
print
color 10: print " 10 ";
color 15: print chr$(155)
   
print
end
   
data 69,144,228,238,36,156,157
' 36 is $, 156 is £ (pound), 157 is ¤ (yen), 155 is ¢

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thanx-a-lot, enjoy and god bless vespucci-land,
frank -- my humble abode -- 4000-and-beyond

[this message has been edited by frank ferrell (edited october 20, 2001).]

**Henk Broekhuizen** · 20 Oct 2001, 11:06 AM

Thanx for your input Frank. The last chararcter is pretty close
to the goal. By law it has to be the right character to prevent
problems with payments and enforcement of payments. So really
we are looking for an lowercase-type 'c' with two horizontal
stripes through it, so a special characters like $, pound sign
and Yen sign. Those were around however when the char-sets were
defined, but the euro sign isn't.

Thanx again.

Henk

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Henk Broekhuizen,
[email protected]

**Henk Broekhuizen** · 20 Oct 2001, 11:44 AM

I have tried it, but you forgot to put an END IF there, so probably
best to tweak it a bit more and put that one in just before or after
the empty PRINT statement.
Thanx again,

Henk

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Henk Broekhuizen,
[email protected]

**Frank Ferrell** · 20 Oct 2001, 12:12 PM

thanx and ok henk --

thanx for catching that! what a stupid i am!

are you printing out straight to a printer in dos? or are you saving to a file and printing the results some other way? if the latter, are you printing out in windows using a fixed width true type font?

andale mono and courier new offer different representations of "e". and there are other fixed-width true type fonts you can try.

go to this link -- help 311 -- and see if any of the fonts offered there are useful. you should also try out the character map program. it will give you a peak at all the characters of a given font.

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thanx-a-lot, enjoy and god bless vespucci-land,
frank -- my humble abode -- 4000-and-beyond

[this message has been edited by frank ferrell (edited october 21, 2001).]

**Henk Broekhuizen** · 21 Oct 2001, 02:21 AM

Well, the question for the euro came from an old customer of us &
PowerBASIC Inc.. We used to be the importer for PowerBASIC products and add-ons
in the Netherlands.
So I will pass this info to them and have to hear from them if it
solved their problem.

Thanks very much for your reactions, responses and ideas. This is much appreciated.

Regards,

Henk

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Henk Broekhuizen,
[email protected]

**Frank Ferrell** · 21 Oct 2001, 11:21 PM

greetings, thanx and good luck henk

with character map, you notice some interesting things. such as the fact that
some windows special characters require a 4-digit (rather than 3) altkey code.
here's an example --

Code:

this little square dot • is created with alt-0149 (alt-149 creates ò symbol).
the dot may remind you of the dos alt-254 character, which is a little bigger
than the windows version.

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thanx-a-lot, enjoy and god bless vespucci-land,
frank -- my humble abode -- 4000-and-beyond

[this message has been edited by frank ferrell (edited october 22, 2001).]

**Tom Hanlin** · 22 Oct 2001, 07:46 AM

Character Composition: The Keypad Story

Hold down the ALT key, and you can use the numeric keypad to enter
the ASCII code of any character. For example, hold down ALT, press
"6" then "5", and release ALT. Presto, you've created a CHR$(65),
or "A".

This is basically a DOS feature, although it's been continued on to
Windows. So, as you might guess, there's also a way of specifying
ANSI characters, instead of ASCII characters: you enter a "0" as the
first digit.

Try this with ALT 1 2 8 and ALT 0 1 2 8 to see how it works.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

**David J Walker** · 22 Oct 2001, 05:03 PM

Easy enough on-screen in DOS, just edit one of the less
used characters in the screen font. I am currently working (or
thinking about working..) out a method for printing out of DOS.
However, it is unlikely that I will support many printers, H-P,
Epson & Canon BJ are the only types I currently do graphics for.
Getting the information for this stuff is like pulling teeth.

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**Frank Ferrell** · 22 Oct 2001, 05:23 PM

greetings tom hanlin --

alt-128 Ç

alt-0128 ‡

yup - that's quite a difference!

hey, henk -- check this out !!
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thanx-a-lot, enjoy and god bless vespucci-land,
frank -- my humble abode -- 4000-and-beyond

[this message has been edited by frank ferrell (edited october 22, 2001).]

**Lance Edmonds** · 22 Oct 2001, 06:17 PM

Alas, ALT+0128 won't work a DOS application though since that uses the OEM character set, and produces the same result as a ALT+128. Entering ALT+0128 in a Windows app should get you the ANSI (Euro) character just fine.

BTW, the almost completed DOSPRINT 2.0 will include the ability to print a Euro character too (among other new features like image printing, shaded boxes, etc). (yes, that right folks, a little no-so-subtle advertising! )

Regards,
Lance

**Henk Broekhuizen** · 22 Oct 2001, 08:50 PM

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. Since the person works in DOS
the ANSI thing is IMHO not usable. But perhaps Lance's solution is
one to consider for them.
I will pass on the suggestion.

Thanks to all,

Henk

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Henk Broekhuizen,
[email protected]

**Henk Broekhuizen** · 23 Oct 2001, 12:58 PM

And David . . . is you have a solution I know some people
who are happy to beta-test that solution or you <grin>.

May be the solution is also something for PowerBASIC Inc to
publish on their site if it is a solution for many, since
PBforDOS in 9 EU countries cannot be longer used for programs
which print currency, like factor/bill/programs.

Thanx again guys!

Henk

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Henk Broekhuizen,
[email protected]

**Amos Vryhof** · 23 Oct 2001, 03:04 PM

I have completed a DOS-Mode screen font library for PowerBASIC.

I know I can get the € to show on the screen, but as for printing,
I don't know enough about sending info to the printer to do this.

If I learn more, I will write a nice free library which includes
printer functions.

Amos

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Amos
DosOS.com
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

**Henk Broekhuizen** · 25 Oct 2001, 08:47 AM

Thanx for reacting. The main problem was printing, so if you have a solution in the future I think lots of people would speak out your name with admiration for the next years, as they do with the guy who gave us PowerBASIC <grin>.

Regards,

Henk

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Henk Broekhuizen,
[email protected]

**stephane fonteyne** · 25 Oct 2001, 12:43 PM

Henk,
Are you Nederlander or Belgium?
Do you have an emailadres, if yes can you email me:
to [email protected]

Greetz
Stephane

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ICQ: 123632482

**Don Ward** · 17 Nov 2001, 02:49 AM

Originally posted by David J Walker:
Easy enough on-screen in DOS, just edit one of the less
used characters in the screen font. I am currently working (or
thinking about working..) out a method for printing out of DOS.
However, it is unlikely that I will support many printers, H-P,
Epson & Canon BJ are the only types I currently do graphics for.
Getting the information for this stuff is like pulling teeth.

David, I have been trying to locate the screen font in DOS.
I wrote a program to print landscape using the screen font but
I had to get this by printing a character at the top of the screen
and using the graphics GET to get a bit map. Could you let know
where to access the font?
Thanks, Don

to

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**Henk Broekhuizen** · 17 Nov 2001, 04:30 AM

Another routine for printing the Euro. A solution contributed by Edward Mendelson, put into PB/CC style by me:
Of course this solution should also work with PBforDOS:

FUNCTION PBMAIN() AS LONG
LOCAL euro AS STRING
LOCAL euro2 AS STRING

'euro="C"+CHR$(8)+CHR$(27)+"&a-.05R"+ CHR$(27)+"(s16H"+ CHR$(27)+ "(10U"+ CHR$(205)+ CHR$(8)+ CHR$(27)+"&a+.05R"+ CHR$(27)+"(s10H"+ CHR$(27)+"(8U"+" "
'euro="C"+CHR$(8)+CHR$(27)+"&a-.05R"+ CHR$(27)+"(s16H"+ CHR$(205)+ CHR$(8)+ CHR$(27)+"&a+.05R"+ " "
euro="C"+CHR$(8)+CHR$(27)+"&a-.05R"+ CHR$(27)+"(s16H"+ CHR$(205)+ CHR$(8)+ CHR$(27)+"&a+.05R"+ CHR$(27)+"(s10H"+ CHR$(27)+"(8U"+" "
euro2="C"+CHR$(8)+CHR$(27)+"&a-.07r-.08C"+CHR$(27)+"(s16H"+CHR$(27)+"(10U"+CHR$(205)+CHR$(8)+CHR$(27)+"&a+.07r+.08C"+CHR$(27)+"(s10H"+CHR$(27)+"(8U"+" "

LPRINT "this is a "euro" sign. "
LPRINT "And this is the enhanced one: "euro2
LPRINT CHR$(12);
END FUNCTION
' - letter C
'<chr8>Â - backspace
'<chr27>&a-.1R - UP one-tenth OF a LINE
'<chr27>(s16H - switch TO 16cpi font TO reduce size OF crossbars
'<chr27>(10UÂ - switch TO PC-8 character SET
'<chr205> - type character 205 IN PC-8 character SET (two horizontal lines)
'<chr8> - backspace
'<chr27>&a+.1R - DOWN one-tenth OF a LINE
'<chr27>(s10H - switch back TO 10cpi font
'<chr27>(8U - switch back TO Roman8 character SET
'<32> - type a space

Any other suggestions are welcome!

Regards,

Henk

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Henk Broekhuizen,
[email protected]
The Netherlands

[This message has been edited by Henk Broekhuizen (edited November 17, 2001).]

**Lance Edmonds** · 17 Nov 2001, 04:52 AM

JFYI, those Escape code sequences are in HP/PCL escape code format, for use with HP and compatible printers only.

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PowerBASIC Support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

**Lance Edmonds** · 17 Nov 2001, 05:02 AM

Oh, and only the "enhanced" one worked properly on my HPIIID - the "non-enhanced" one printed a small 'e' where the '=' sign is positioned by the "enhanced" string.

All my other HP and PCL printers are off-line at the moment (I have quite a few!) so I could not test it on them.

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

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