€€Ë óËÎ ÎÐBlBrÐÃ*ÔProportional Spacing Test•œƒ *œÌ ÌRun the PRINTER program included on your supplementary diskette.  When creating a character table, you must indicate that the table type is HMI w/Adjustœ.  This means:  1) It will be used by a printer which has HMI; 2) Character widths are in 120ths of an inch; 3) Adjust factors for each character are included in the table.  If your printer doesn't have HMI, you will need to use microspacing if you want to use your printer's PS character set.ÞJÞ *œÌ ÌMake a good guess at the width of each character.  If your printer manual has a table of widths in 120ths of an inch, this may help.ÞJÞ *œÌ ÌMake sure that the adjust factor for the capital N is zero.ÞJÞ *œÌ ÌUse the PRINTER.EXE program to assign your new character table to one of the fonts on your printer.  Font 3 is preferable since this document will print in font 3, 13* pitch unless you change it.ÞJÞ *œÌ ÌPrint the second page of this document.  Make sure that the capital N's have just enough space between them to look good.  If you have a dot matrix printer, make sure that the row of N's prints smoothly-©the print head should not jerk back and forth.  If you need to or want to change the way N's are printed, change only the widthœ, not the adjust factor.  ÞJÞ *œÌ ÌPrint the third page of this document.  Use the šPRINTER.EXE program to change the adjust factorœ of each character so that its left edge is close to the N before it.  The gap between each character and the N to its left should be about the same as the gap between consecutive N's.ÞJÞ *œÌ ÌPrint the third page once more.  Use PRINTER.EXE to change the widthœ of each character so that its right edge is close to the N after it.  The gap between each character and the N to its right should be about the same as the gap between consecutive N's.ÞJÞ *œÌ ÌPrint this page as a test of the finished product.  This paragraph contains some special characters to test their appearance: !@#& (*%***) {brackets} [brackets] ???/<>\|~`ÞJÞ *œÌ ÌAfter making fine adjustments, your PS character table will be ready to use.  Remember:  to print in proportional spacing mode, you must type an asteriskœ after the pitch:  13* is 13 pitch proportional printing, and 13 is 13 pitch šnonªproportional.ÞJÞ ÜfÜ É„!B„!B„!B„!B É This row of N's should print smoothly and should look good: NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN Adjust the spacing between these N's by changing the width: NNN NNN NNN NNN NNN NNN NNN NNN ÜÜ This is the entire character set: N N N N N@N N`N Ná€áN Ná áN NáÀáN NáàáN NááN N!N NAN NaN NááN Ná¡áN NáÁáN NáááN NááN N"N NBN NbN Ná‚áN Ná¢áN NáÂáN NáâáN NááN N#N NCN NcN NáƒáN Ná£áN NáÃáN NáãáN NááN N$N NDN NdN Ná„áN Ná¤áN NáÄáN NáäáN NááN N%N NEN NeN Ná…áN Ná¥áN NáÅáN NáåáN NááN N&N NFN NfN Ná†áN Ná¦áN NáÆáN NáæáN NááN N'N NGN NgN Ná‡áN Ná§áN NáÇáN NáçáN NááN N(N NHN NhN NáˆáN Ná¨áN NáÈáN NáèáN Ná áN N)N NIN NiN Ná‰áN Ná©áN NáÉáN NáéáN Ná áN N*N NJN NjN NáŠáN NáªáN NáÊáN NáêáN Ná áN N+N NKN NkN Ná‹áN Ná«áN NáËáN NáëáN Ná áN N,N NLN NlN NáŒáN Ná¬áN NáÌáN NáìáN Ná áN N-N NMN NmN NááN Ná­áN NáÍáN NáíáN NááN N.N NNN NnN NáŽáN Ná®áN NáÎáN NáîáN NááN N/N NON NoN NááN Ná¯áN NáÏáN NáïáN NááN N0N NPN NpN NááN Ná°áN NáÐáN NáðáN NááN N1N NQN NqN Ná‘áN Ná±áN NáÑáN NáñáN NááN N2N NRN NrN Ná’áN Ná²áN NáÒáN NáòáN NááN N3N NSN NsN Ná“áN Ná³áN NáÓáN NáóáN NááN N4N NTN NtN Ná”áN Ná´áN NáÔáN NáôáN NááN N5N NUN NuN Ná•áN NáµáN NáÕáN NáõáN NááN N6N NVN NvN Ná–áN Ná¶áN NáÖáN NáöáN NááN N7N NWN NwN Ná—áN Ná·áN Ná×áN Ná÷áN NááN N8N NXN NxN Ná˜áN Ná¸áN NáØáN NáøáN NááN N9N NYN NyN Ná™áN Ná¹áN NáÙáN NáùáN NááN N:N NZN NzN NášáN NáºáN NáÚáN NáúáN NááN N;N N[N N{N Ná›áN Ná»áN NáÛáN NáûáN NááN NN N^N N~N NážáN Ná¾áN NáÞáN NáþáN NááN N?N N_N NááN NáŸáN Ná¿áN NáßáN