4. NOTATION USED IN THIS EMULATION DESCRIPTION; 4.1. Syntax; 4.2. Data Conventions- Page 325

CHAPTER 7 IBM PROPRINTER - 7 

4.

NOTATION USED IN THIS EMULATION DESCRIPTION 

4.1.

Syntax 

The following conventions are used in this description of the Proprinter XL software commands. 

A letter, word or number in upright bold text is the literal character which and should be sent to the 
printer as a character code. 

A letter or word in italics is a variable and you must substitute the appropriate value or values when using 
the command. 

An ellipsis, ..., indicates that an element may be repeated any number of times. 

4.2.

Data Conventions 

The bits that comprise a byte of data are numbered 1 to 8.  Bit 1 is the least significant bit (LSB) and bit 8 
is the most significant bit (MSB).