AW4/IBM Proprinter

[etxmsl@tn.ericsson.se (Martin Landhage)]

Is there anyone that can solve this ?

Yesterday I helped a friend of mine, Jonatam to install AppleWorks 4.0 on his
128k Apple //e.

Since he is using a IBM Proprinter, it took a while to learn AppleWorks to
communicate with the Proprinter (setting up all the printer codes).

The result were really good. Jonatams comment was:

- I did not know that this pronter could print this good !

But there is one problem remainig. Since we live in Sweden (Sverige in Swedish),
we want the printer to be able to print text in Swedish to and these requires
six special characters. These are:
Unix Coding:   ������
7-bit ascii:   ][\}{|
(If you are reading this on a IIGS with ProTERM or another text based program
go into Contol Panel and set character set = Swedish, then you now how they
look like).
Since the Apple //e is using 7-bit ASCII, the printer has to be able to translate
the sqare blackets to Swedish characters. With most printers you can chage this
by setting the DIP-switches but with the IBM Proprinter you can't (only supposed
to work with a PC).

In order to solve this someone has to patch the AppleWorks print module so
it does the following character conversion:
93 -> 143
91 -> 142
92 -> 153
125 -> 134
123 -> 132
124 -> 148

Good luck !
Martin Landhage