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HCORIENT HORIZONTAL HCDENSITY HIGH
HCREPAINT 2 HCDATARES 2
HCMAP - Representing Colors on a Monochrome Graphics Printer On a monochrome graphics printer, all indices except Index 0, which is usually the background color, print in black ink. If this makes your screen copy hard to read, use the HCMAP command to suppress the printing of selected indices.
To suppress printing of an index, issue HCMAP followed by the index and then a O - 0 specifies "no print", while 1 specifies "print." (Since all indices except Index O print by factory default, you need only specify those indices that you don't want to print.)
For example, to suppress printing of Indices 5, 6, and 7, enter:
HCMAP 5,0,6,0,7,0
Now, everything displayed in Indices 5, 6, and 7 on the screen is not printed on your hardcopy, while all other indices print. (You can find the index number of a color by using the Set Color Function, which is described in Section 2.)
HCDAATTRIBUTES - Copying Multiple Pages From the Dialog Buffer The HCDAATTRIBUTES command lets you copy to a color copier or monochrome printer more of the dialog buffer text than just that displayed on the terminal's screen. (This procedure is more applicable when your terminal is in HOSTPORT RS-232 - in HOSTPORT COAX, the dialog buffer is limited to 32 lines.) The HCDAATTRIBUTES command has three parameters:
1. Number of pages to be copied. (The factory default is 1, but you can copy as many pages as your buffer will hold.)
2. Starting page to begin the copy. (The copy can begin at either the beginning or end of the dialog buffer, or at the beginning of the text displayed on the screen.)
Your options are:
• 0 - To start copying from the first line on the screen (the factory default)
• 1 - To start copying from the top of the dialog buffer
• 2 - To copy from the bottom of the dialog buffer
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3. When to begin a new page. (You can specify a page break after each 60 lines of text, wherever a Form Feed character occurs, or both.) For some copiers, this parameter is affected by the HCFEATURES command, which is described on the next page.
Your options are:
• O - If you are using a 4691 or 4692, breaks pages every 66 lines (60 lines of text plus three blank lines each at the top and bottom margins, making a total page length of 66 lines)-this is the default If you are using a continuous-feed copier or the LaserJet1, breaks pages at the current HCFEATURES setting for page length (66 lines by default)
• 1 - Breaks pages as though this parameter were set to 0, but also breaks pages at Form Feed characters (all copiers)
• 2 - Breaks pages only at Form Feed characters (all copiers)
The following examples show how the HCDAATIRIBUTES command works (for copiers that are affected by the HCFEATURES command, these examples assume the command is at its factory default values):
• To copy the three most recent pages, ignore Form Feeds, and page the copy every 60 lines, enter:
HCDAATTRIBUTES 3,2,0
The 3 (first parameter) specifies three pages to be copied. The 2 (second parameter) causes the page count to start from the last line (most recently entered) of the dialog buffer. The O (third parameter) causes a new page to begin every 60 lines of text (66 lines total - 60 text plus 3 lines each at the top and bottom of a page).
• To copy two pages starting from the first line displayed on the screen and to start a new page every 60 lines of text or wherever a Form Feed occurs, enter:
HCDAATTRIBUTES 2,0, 1
• To copy the five oldest pages and start a new page only at every Form Feed, enter:
HCDAATTRIBUTES 5, 1,2
Keep in mind that the first setting (the number of pages) and the last setting (whether Form Feeds are ignored) affect one another. If the dialog buffer begins with four Form Feeds, and you specify that the copier or printer should print four pages and break pages only at Form Feeds, you would get four blank pages.
Or, assume you set the terminal to page only on Form Feeds and you set the number of pages to 1. If there are no Form Feeds in the text, the entire dialog buffer will be copied without page breaks, regardless of the number of lines.
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HCFEATURES - Paging for Continuous-Feed Copiers and the LaserJet1 If you are using a continuous-feed copier or a LaserJet for dialog copying, you can specify how many lines of text should be on each page as well as how many blank lines you want at the top and bottom margins. If you are using a continuous-feed copier for screen copying, you can specify a paper advance between each copy.
(Continuous-feed copiers, such as the Tektronix 4644, 4695, and 4696, feed paper from one continuous roll or a stack of perforated paper.)
The HCFEATURES command gives you these capabilities. This command works differently than most of the other commands we've shown in this manual. To use the command, enter both a feature number and the value you want to assign to it.
Table 3-2 describes each feature number, what devices and types of copying each feature controls, and the values for each feature.
Table3-2
USING HCFEATURES FOR PAGING
Type of Type of Default
Feature Function Copy Copier Valid Valuesa Value
1b Turns background copying on Screen All except 0-65536 0
Memory for and off LaserJet
Background Copying
2" Controls the number of blank Dialog Continuous 0-32767 3
Top Margin lines at the top of each page feed and LaserJet
3c Controls the number of blank Dialog Continuous 0-32767 3 Bottom lines at the bottom of each feed and
Margin page LaserJet
4c Controls the number of lines of Dialog Continuous 0-32767 60
Text Length text on each page feed and
LaserJet
5 Controls whether paper should Screen Continuous 0 (no advance) 0 Advance advance between each screen feed only 1 (advance)
copy
a The valid values shown can be issued without generating an error, but they are not necessarily reasonable values. Margins and page length together generally shouldn't exceed 66 lines.
b Although this parameter can be used to control background copying, we suggest that you use the Setup command HCBACKGROUND instead, which is described in Making Screen Copies in Background (earlier in this section).
The LaserJet inserts an additional three lines each at the top and bottom of each page - see Special Considerations for the LaserJet later in this discussion.
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The following examples help illustrate how to use HCFEATURES for paging:
• To specify four lines each at the top and bottom margins, enter:
HCFEATURES 2,4,3,4
The 2 identifies which feature you are specifying (in this case, top margin), the 4 that follows specifies that you want four lines at the top margin. The next 3 and 4 specify a bottom margin of four lines.
• To specify a six-line top and bottom margin with 44 lines of text (for a typical 66-line copy), enter the following command:
HCFEATURES 2,6,3,6,4,44
• To advance the paper after a screen copy, enter the following command:
HCFEATURES 5, 1
You will probably want to figure out how you want copies paged and then save those settings. After you have issued the HCFEATURES command settings you want, just enter:
NV SAVE
Of course, any time you want to temporarily override those settings, just reissue HCFEATURES with the new settings. The next time you turn the terminal on, HCFEATURES settings will revert back to those saved in nonvolatile memory.
NOTE
Procedures to paginate dialog copies are more applicable when the terminal is in HOSTPORT RS-232, since this host port setting allows you to specify large dialog buffers. In HOSTPORT COAX, the dialog buffer is limited to 32 lines (although you can still use this command to break the 32 lines into pages).
Special Considerations for the LaserJet (4207 Only). The LaserJet
automatically inserts three lines for top and bottom margins; this means that any margins you specify with HCFEATURES are added to these initial three lines.
Therefore, to paginate 60 lines of text per page (for a typical 66-line page), set the HCFEATURES margin settings to O and the text length to 60. That is, enter:
HCFEATURES 2,0,3,0,4,60