[Ham-Computers] How To Print Unspeakable Foreign Punctuation Marks

[Gary Pewitt]

Duane, try this page        http://www.typenow.net/themed.htm    lots 
of free fonts.




At 07:16 PM 11/5/2008, you wrote:


>Hi All,
>
>No, not those kind! These are the ones that do not have a spoken 
>language counterpart in our English language.
>
>I have the HP4 Laser Printer that I bought new in 1998 for about 
>$900. It works perfectly. However, I recently noticed while filling 
>out QSL cards for some overseas Hams that the text in my DX Database 
>did not match what was being printed on my address sheets. A sighted 
>friend was getting very confused because what I was telling him and 
>what was printed out, did not match.
>
>The language that I encountered most of the issues was Espanol, 
>which I happen to speak. Which helped in determing what was going on.
>
>What the synthetic speech said, and what the printer printed out, 
>were different. For instance, a word contained the letter "e", but 
>when it was spoken by the speech synthesizer as I moved over the 
>word one character at a time, was "e+" some kind of punctuation 
>mark. The printer simply ignored the symbol!
>
>Since I had copied the address from qrz.com, then pasted it into 
>Word Pad, saved the document as a .txt file and then loaded it into 
>my DOS word processing program to edit, my text did contain the symbol!
>
>So I guess my question is this. How do I enable the HP4 Laser 
>Printer to print these foreign punctuation symbols?
>
>I suspect that I need to load in some special fonts, just a guess -
>
>I have never loaded any special fonts, or anything else for that 
>matter, into the HP4, as there has never been any reason to.
>
>Suggestions?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
>E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
>Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net
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>
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