Bold in printing

[Nigel Hughes]

Wendy

I remember using control characters for printing but only in connection with dot matrix printers, never had to try with laser or inkjet

Could the type of printer be the issue ?

Regards

Nigel

email nigel at rnamh.co.uk
mobile: 07740528504



> On 2 Aug 2018, at 08:01, Wendy <wizardcompserv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> 
> 
> I want the user to be able to bold text in a document - I am sure that this
> worked some years ago but does not work any more - I am hoping someone can
> help.
> 
> 
> 
> The user can put [kbold] at the start of the text to bold and [kplain] at
> the end , they can also put [knewline] - I then replace these with the
> characters required - this works fine for the new line but not the bold.
> 
> 
> 
> The characters I am using are 
> 
> 
> 
> Library variable GV_BOLD (Character   2) = con(chr(14),chr(2))
> 
> Library variable GV_NORMAL (Character   2) = con(chr(14),chr(1))
> 
> Library variable GV_NEWLINE (Character   1) = chr(13)
> 
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong? 
> 
> 
> 
> Many thanks for your help
> 
> Wendy Osbaldestin
> 
> Wizard Computer Services
> 
> Tel:  01260271647
> 
> Mobile: 07740541021
> 
> 
> 
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