Joost, at 01:00 on Mon, Sep 09 1996, you wrote to Zsolt Hengsperger ...
JB> Personally I'm looking for a way of sending output from within QEdit to 
the 
JB> printerport. My printer has internal fonts, and thus I could b.e. press 
JB> ctrl-1 for small, ctrl2 for medium en ctrl-3 for big fonts. I don't need 
JB> this kind of information in my documents. If I wanted that, I would use 
JB> Word. But it would be rather usefull if could configure the printer by 
JB> keyboard.
Why don't you do the same thing you described (with macros)? Have a key 
insert a printer control string which is block marked, send that blocked text 
to the printer, then delete it. I used to have a batch file that sent control 
codes to the printer for various things but these days as you said I just use 
a word processor.
You could have a key insert the control string and leave it at the relevant 
place in the document for next time.
Regards, Peter
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