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Often printers have various facilities which can be selected by sending escape sequences prior to the job. The kind of facilities might include:
Other things you might want to do automatically are:
The way we provide for this is to allow form types to have what we call "suffixes".
A form type, a4.l10 in this example, is divided into two parts.
The paper type corresponds to the actual paper loaded in the printer, which you would in principle have to physically change, a4 in this case. The paper type is never automatically changed, it requires intervention on Xi-Text to change it.
Jobs are scheduled for printing by matching the paper type to the paper type on a printer, ignoring the suffix.
The suffix can be automatically changed as jobs are scheduled, as only the paper type is considered. It is possible to set up suffixes to have given meanings, so as to insert control sequences or run a program to generate control sequences at the start of each job or each page, or the end of each job or each page. Alternatively the data can be sent through a filter program as it is printed.
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