Xerox Printer User Manual

PLANNING YOUR FORMS

You can create virtual keyboard and font character maps and
store them in the XPRM database after installation.  During the
compilation of forms, you can set the compiler to use the
character maps to enable keyboard–to–font character mapping.
Use the KEYBOARD parameter of the COMPILE command to
specify the keyboard map you want to use.  The keyboard
characters are mapped to the corresponding graphic
representations of the characters in the Xerox printer fonts.  For
more information on setting the compiler, refer to the “Using the
COMPILE command” section in the “Managing and printing
sample forms” chapter.

Normally, mapping is not required in the United States, but it is
required in the following situations:

•

When there are differences between your terminal keyboard
configurations

•

To accommodate varying character sets 

•

To accommodate the internal organization of characters
within different fonts.

You must use a keyboard character map to access a font
character map.  In the United States, use the U.S. English
keyboard character map.

Generally, you map the keyboard character to the corresponding
character in each font used in the form.  Figure 2–7 shows this
process.  In the example, the neutral double quote (") on the
keyboard is mapped to the neutral double quote in the font.

Figure 2–7.

Virtual keyboard

character map

Font character map

Keyboard

character

Xerox

character

identifier

Font

character

that prints

Keyboard

table

"

7F

000/042

"

Xerox

character

identifier

EBCDIC

Hexadecimal

code point

Keyboard emission

ASCII

Hexadecimal

code point

F2

000/042

7F

HOST FORMS DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE 3.2 FOR IBM MVS CREATING FORMS

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