I've never printed out anything very large (apart from 1 novel), but the fiddliest printing I ever did was when we produce the booklets for the educational software that my husband wrote.
Things like subscripts and superscripts had to be done by using a printer driver that would stop the daisy-wheel printer at the right point (I had to put in some kind of control character into the text) and then manually wind the paper up or down one click, press Enter to make it go again to print the letter or number, and then another control character would stop the printing to allow me to wind the paper back to the correct point.
And if you messed up, you had to go through all the performance again from the beginning.
Mission Statement
Reading, writing, plant photography, and the small details of my life, with digressions into science and computing.
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Date: 2009-05-14 12:12 pm (UTC)Things like subscripts and superscripts had to be done by using a printer driver that would stop the daisy-wheel printer at the right point (I had to put in some kind of control character into the text) and then manually wind the paper up or down one click, press Enter to make it go again to print the letter or number, and then another control character would stop the printing to allow me to wind the paper back to the correct point.
And if you messed up, you had to go through all the performance again from the beginning.