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CHAPTER 4 HP-GL/2 - 40 

7.6.1.  Introduction 

The character group commands enable you to print text to accompany your HP-GL/2 generated graphics  
without leaving graphics mode.  You can use any font that would be available to you in LaserJet emulation 
mode  and you can modify various printing characteristics of the text such as the size, direction and slant of 
the characters. 

SD - Define standard font 

SD [ 

attribute, value

 ] [..] [;] 

attribute ; a font attribute to be defined 
value ; the value of the attribute 

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This command allows you to define the standard font and its attribute. 

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attribute takes a value from 1-7. 1=symbol set, 2=spacing, 3=pitch, 4=height, 5=posture, 6=stroke weight and 
7=typeface. 

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value selects an option for the specified attribute. 

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If the defined font is not available another font is selected that matches the defined font's specified attributes 
as closely as possible.  The symbol set attribute has the highest priority for matching and typeface has the 
lowest. 

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If you omit all parameters,  the default standard font attributes are used.  These are shown below. 

Attribute 

Meaning 

Default value 

Description 

1 

Symbol set 

277 

Roman-8 

2 

Spacing 

0 

Monospacin

g 

3 

Pitch 

9 

9 cpi 

4 

Height 

11.5 

11.5 point 

5 

Posture 

0 

Upright 

characters 

6 

Stroke 

weight 

0 

Medium 

7 

Typeface 

48 

Stick font