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About character formatting, Bold start/bold stop – Xerox 4213 User Manual

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XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE

About character formatting

The character formatting commands provide some character
control without a change of fonts. You can do the following:

Bold (although a bold font may be preferable)

Underline

Overstrike with any printable character

Create subscripts or superscripts.

Note: These commands increase page complexity and can slow
the performance of the printer.

Italics

There is no command for italicising characters. You must select
an italic font with the Font ID Assignment and Font Change
commands, see “Fonts on the 4213 printer“).

Bold Start/Bold Stop

Purpose

Creates boldface text without the use of a bold font.

Syntax

E

b

Syntax

E

p

b

Instruction to start bold.

p

Instruction to stop bold.

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